Ernest Hébrard

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Ernest Hébrard (born September 11, 1875 in Paris , † 1933 ibid) was a French urban planner , architect and archaeologist . After the great fire of 1917, he designed the new city map for Thessaloniki and worked as a city planner for Hanoi .

Life

Hotel Imperial in Karlovy Vary

Hébrard studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and then worked in the archaeological service of the multinational Army of the Orient of the Entente . In 1917 he was in Thessaloniki when the great fire broke out. Due to his qualifications, he was then entrusted with urban planning, in 1918 he was appointed professor of architecture at the University of Athens. In Athens, Hébrard turned away from historicist forms and became a proponent of modernism ; his students included the functionalist Thoukikidis Valentis and Konstantinos Biris. In 1921, Hébrard accepted an offer from the French state to work as a city planner in French Indochina , but in 1927 he returned to Greece. He accepted a position as a public works consultant for the Greek Ministry of Education in Athens . In retirement, he returned to Paris, in poor health, where he died.

Projects

The Platia Aristotelous as part of the city planning of Thessaloniki
  • Reconstruction of Diocletian's Palace in Split (1912)
  • Hotel Imperial in Karlovy Vary (1910–1912), under monument protection ÚSKP no. 10838 / 4-5034
  • Urban planning Thessaloniki (after 1917)
  • Urban planning Hanoi (after 1921)
  • Urban planning Casablanca
  • Urban planning Athens (not carried out)
  • National Museum of the History of Vietnam in Hanoi, originally French Louis Finot School (1932)
  • Main financial administration in Hanoi, now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • National University of Vietnam, originally University of Indochina in Hanoi
  • Roman Catholic Church of Martyrs in Hanoi

Web links

Commons : Ernest Hébrard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Howling Pixel - Ernest Hébrard (accessed July 2, 2919)
  2. ↑ Karlovy Vary - Hotel Imperial (Czech) (accessed July 2, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Hébrard, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French urban planner, architect and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1933
Place of death Paris