Eugène Monod

Eugène-Édouard Monod (born June 16, 1871 in Morges ; † November 9, 1929 ) was a Swiss architect who mainly worked in Lausanne .

Life

Monod studied from 1895 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . There he met his compatriot Alphonse Laverrière (1872–1954), with whom Monod worked between 1902 and 1915. Together with the latter, the Swiss designed the verticalism-oriented Chauderon Bridge in Lausanne , the Lausanne train station and the Reformation monument in Geneva , the latter in a team of four with Charles Dubois and Jean Taillens . After the First World War, Eugène Monod, who was from 1911 a member of the Vaud Society of Engineers and Architects and the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects , stopped practicing his profession. In 1913 and 1921 he was general commissioner at the fifth and seventh Olympic Congress in Lausanne.

With Laverrière Monod won the gold medal in the “Architecture” category at the 1912 Olympic art competitions in Stockholm, Sweden, for the construction plan for a modern stadium.

The Chauderon Bridge , designed by Monod and his partner Alphonse Laverrière , built between 1904 and 1905.

The Geneva Reformation Monument , built from 1909 to 1917, shows important people of the Reformation movement over a length of 100 meters.

Monod was married to Yvonne de Westerweller (1879–1947) since 1903 and had three children.

Eugène Monod in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Monod, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Monod, Eugène-Édouard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Morges
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1929