Alphonse Laverrière

Alphonse Laverrière ( born May 16, 1872 in Carouge, † March 11, 1954 in Lausanne, home justified in Carouge ) was a Swiss architect.

From 1887 to 1890 Laverrière studied art at the École des Beaux -Arts in Geneva and from 1892 at the same school in Paris. In 1901 he was graduated. After his studies he worked as an architect in Lausanne and worked from 1902 to the year 1915, Eugène Monod together.

Laverrière won various competitions such as the Olympic gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Summer Games 1912.

He designed and built especially villas, bank and factory buildings, but also bridges. He also dealt with the interior design and furniture design. Among his works are the Monument to the Reformation Geneva, Lausanne train station, the cemetery Bois -de- Vaux in Montoie / Bourdonnette district of Bel-Air Tower, Chauderon Bridge and the Botanical Gardens. In the years 1917-1926 he built for the watch factory Zurich and was from 1918 to 1926, the artistic director of the company. Between 1929-1942 he was Professor of Architectural Theory at the ETH Zurich. In addition, he was instrumental in the founding of the School of Architecture at the ETH Lausanne. In 1953 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne.

In 1913 he was a founding member of the Association " L' Oeuvre ", which published a newspaper of the same name. He was a member of the Swiss Engineers and Architects Association, and the Federal Swiss architects.