Pierre Forestier
Pierre Forestier (born November 21, 1902 in Roquefort , † 1989 in Paris ) was a French architect and town planner .
Life
Pierre Forestier was born in 1902 as the son of the agronomist and commercial judge Henri Forestier and Marthe Guérin. He attended high school in Orléans and Sainte-Barbe-sur-Gaillon and passed the high school diploma in 1920. From 1922 he studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with Georges Gromort , from 1924 he studied with Auguste Perret in the studio in the Palais de Bois . Here he met Ernő Goldfinger and André Sive and worked with both. At the same time, he completed an apprenticeship at the Institute d'Urbanisme and then worked in the architectural office of Auguste and Gustave Perret. In 1927 Forestier took up a job for the Perrets in Algeria, where he supported the architect Jacques Guiauchain in the planning and execution of the government seat in Algiers in reinforced concrete, a construction method with which Forrestier was familiar because it was the preferred building material of the Perrets. Forestier built an expressive building in the style of Perret's preferred " classicisme structurel ".
In 1930 Forestier and Sive won the competition for the Cité sanitaire de Clairvivre in Salagnac . In 25 months, the two architects planned and implemented a complete city with 180 single-family and two apartment buildings, a hospital, a hotel with a café, restaurants, a cinema, shops, a school, a car workshop and a heating plant. In 1937 Forestier built the Villa Blondeau on stilts in Algiers on a steeply sloping plot of land. He also built a research center and a residential building in Algeria .
From 1937 to 1939, Forestier was the city councilor for Orléans. During his tenure, he built a day-care center and redesigned the art museum. From 1938 he worked as the architect of the Ministère des Postes et des Télécommunications for the Loir-et-Cher , Indre and Nièvre departments and realized several post offices and letter distribution centers in Nevers , Montargis , Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye , Pithiviers , Chartres , Bourges , Blois and Orléans. In 1955, Forestier was appointed architect of the Institut nationale de la Santé et de la Recherche médicale (INSERM) and built several laboratories for the institute by 1970.
Awards
- 1935 Awarded a silver medal at the world exhibition in Brussels
- 1937 silver medal for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques in Paris
- Knight of the Legion of Honor
- Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite
Works
- 1927–1929 seat of government in Algiers
- 1929 Maison de l'Agriculture de l'Oranie in Algiers, with Guiauchain
- 1930 Cité sanitaire de Clairvivre in Salagnac , with Sive
- 1937 Villa Blondeau
- 1937–1939 daycare center, redesign of the art museum
- 1953–1994 building on avenue Kléber in Paris
- 1954–1955 holiday home in Buthiers , with Robert Le Ricolais
- Alphonse Laveran military hospital in Marseille and hospitals in Montmorency , Le Raincy , Meaux and Montfermeil
- Extension of the La Musse sanatorium in Arnières-sur-Iton
literature
- Pierre Forestier . In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . KG Saur, Munich, Leipzig, 1991
- Joseph Abram: Pierre Forestier 1902-1989 . L'Architecture d'Aujourdhui, Paris, No. 269, April 1990
Individual evidence
- ↑ Forestier's biography , Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, French Ministry of Culture and Communication (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forestier, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect and urban planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roquefort , Aveyron department , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1989 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |