Émile Aillaud

Émile Aillaud ( born January 18, 1902 in Mexico, † December 29, 1988 in Paris) was a French architect.

Life

Aillaud began after the school in 1921 to study Architecture and Fine Arts in the ateliers of Georges Gromort and Louis Arretche and then at the École supérieure national des beaux -arts de Paris ( Paris ENSBA ), from which he graduated in 1928 with a diploma. After that, he was an architect working and created a pavilion for the World Exhibition Paris 1937. During the following years he designed buildings for cities like Creutzwald and Arras, but also large housing estates after 1933 adopted the Charter of Athens ( CIAM ) via the so-called " functional city " as in Bobigny ( 1954-1960 ), Pantin ( 1957-1964 ), Forbach ( 1960-1965 ), Grigny (1964 to 1971) and Chanteloup -les -Vignes ( 1971-1975 ).

His most famous design was particularly named after him and built in 1977 high-rise ensemble Tours Aillaud in the business district of La Défense in the Paris suburb of Nanterre and the redevelopment of the Quartier des Halles.

After his death took place from 1989 to 1990 an exhibition of his sketches and designs in Paris under the title exposure Emile Aillaud, Oeuvres Graphiques instead.

His son was the painter, graphic artist and stage designer Gilles Aillaud.