Guillaume Gillet (architect)

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Palais des congrès in Paris
Notre-Dame de Royan Church

Guillaume Marie-Paul Gillet (born November 20, 1912 in Fontaine-Chaalis , † September 23, 1987 in Paris ) was a French architect and urban planner .

Life

Gillet was born in 1912 to the art and literary historian Louis Gillet . He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with Emmanuel Pontremoli and Auguste Perret and graduated in 1937 with a diploma. With René Coulon , he then built the pavilion for the glass manufacturer Saint-Gobain at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris .

He was drafted in 1939 and fell into German captivity during the Second World War as early as 1940 . He was imprisoned in officers' camp VI-A in Soest . There he painted the French chapel with colleagues . After returning in 1945, Gillet returned to Paris and started his own business. At the instigation of his former teacher Pontremoli, he took part in the Prix ​​de Rome in 1946 and won. Until 1950 he stayed in Rome with this scholarship .

After his return to France he was given the task of rebuilding Sisteron . At the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels , Gillet was allowed to design the French pavilion and that of the city of Paris together with the engineer Bernard Laffaille . In 1959 he became a consulting architect for the French Ministry of Justice, for which he built several penal institutions between 1959 and 1975 and in 1979 the École nationale de la magistrature in Bordeaux . He also advised the building authorities of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , Bouches-du-Rhône and Hautes-Alpes departments . As the chief architect of France's public buildings and palaces, he was tasked with remodeling a number of French buildings in Rome, including the Palazzo Farnese , the Villa Medici and the Villa Bonaparte. He also advised the cities of Paris ( 8th arrondissement ), Cannes , the Principality of Monaco and Antibes as an architect .

Between 1953 and 1971, Gillet taught architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1957 he became a member of the Académie royale d'architecture , of which he was president from 1970 to 1973. He was also president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1983 , where he had been a member since 1968.

Gillet was buried in the Notre-Dame de Royan church he designed .

Awards

In 1959 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Works

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  • Reconstruction of Sisteron
  • Reconstruction of Cité du Pont-du-Tilleul, Tourcoing
  • Residential District (ZUP) Nord and Roy-d'Espagne, Marseille
  • “Nouveau Siècle” building complex, Lille
  • "Port Canto" marina, Cannes
  • Cité scolaire, Royan

literature

  • Rosemarie Richner: Projet de recherche, note de synthèse. L'Architecture des années 50: histoire d'une œuvre, l'église Notre-Dame de Royan de 1954 à nos jours, architecte G. Gillet . Université Lyon-I; Ecole national sup. des bibliothécaires, 1990,
  • History workshop of the French Chapel: The Oflag VI A, Captured in Westphalia: The history of the French prisoners of war in Soest . Soest, 2000
  • History workshop French Chapel eV Soest: The French Chapel in Soest: Homeland - Saints - Backgrounds, Soest 2004
  • Guillaume Gillet 1912-1987, architect painter literary man: The French Chapel in Soest, culture in captivity . Exhibition catalog, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest, 2000.
  • christelle Frapier: Guillaume Gillet (1912−1987): un exemple de collaboration architecte-ingénieurs . Université de Paris, 2001
  • Nicolas Nogue, Rose Gillet, Isabelle Debette: Guillaume Gillet: architecte, peintre, écrivain: 1912-1987 . Royan: Royan culture, 2002
  • Franck Delorme: Guillaume Gillet. 1912-1987. Un architecte des Trente Glorieuses . Colonnes, No. 25, June, 2009
  • Corinne Bélier, Franck Delorme: Guillaume Gillet. Architecte des Trente Glorieuses , exhibition, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2009
  • Franck: Delorme: Guillaume Gillet et le gothique moderne , In: "Le Point riche", No. 8, June 2010
  • Franck Delorme: L'église Notre-Dame de Royan: Guillaume Gillet et le gothique moderne . Le Festin, Bordeaux, 2012
  • Franck Delorme: Guillaume Gillet . Editions du Patrimoine, Paris, 2013

Web links

  • Gillet in the Archiwebture, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (French)
personal data
SURNAME Gillet, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gillet, Guillaume Marie-Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontaine-Chaalis
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1987
Place of death Paris