Albert Laprade
Albert Laprade ( born November 29, 1883 in Buzançais; † May 9, 1978 in Paris) was a French architect and town planner.
Life
Laprade was born in 1883 the son of a grocer and a seamstress in Buzançais to Châteauroux. He attended from 1894 to 1900, the Lycée du Châteauroux. Between 1900 and 1903 he made then from his military service. From 1903 he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts in Paris. There he became a pupil of Ernest CLERET and Gaston Redon. Already during his studies, he worked with the architects and urban planners René Sergent, an uncle by marriage, and Henri Prost. In 1907 he completed his studies with a diploma.
1914 Laprade was drafted into the army and was wounded in the following year at Ypres. For recovery, he was transferred to Rouen, but the wound was too heavy and he had not come back in the war. In the same year he was sent to Henri Prost to Morocco, which was responsible for urban planning there. With Prost Laprade built, among others, the New Town of Casablanca and designed the seat of the Permanent Representative of the French Government in Rabat. In 1920 he returned to France and opened his own architectural firm, which he led at times together with other architects.
Between 1932 and 1960 he was chief architect for public buildings and national palaces, 1944-1958 chief architect of the Ministry of Reconstruction and architect for the reconstruction of Le Mans.
Laprade was a member of the " Société des Architectes modern ", Vice President of the Académie d'Architecture, founding member of the International Union of Architects and the editorial board of L' Architecture d' aujourd'hui.
Honors and Awards (selection)
- Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Member of the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux -arts de Belgique
- Commander of the Legion of Honor
- Member of the Académie des Beaux -Arts and in 1965 its president