François Spoerry

François Spoerry ( born December 28, 1912 in Mulhouse, Alsace, † 11 January 1999) was a French architect.

Life

The son of a wealthy industrialist family earned in 1943 the diploma of the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Marseille. As a member of the Resistance, he was just like his sister Anne was arrested and deported to the concentration camp Buchenwald and Dachau. After the war, he opened an architectural office in his hometown and was heavily involved in their reconstruction. Among other things, he built the Wilson Tower, the tower of Europe ( the latter with a rotating restaurant at the top ). , And high-rise buildings, which significantly differed from his later realizations

Widely known Spoerry was his renunciation of the urbanism of the Congrès International d' Architecture Moderne ( CIAM ), and by his devotion to traditional models of urban design, in the case of the designed on the model of Venice Port -Grimaud. In contrast to the architecture of postmodernism little later than their precursors can apply, this reversal has on no ironic twist.

June 2007 - - After Spoerry a place in Port Grimaud and a street named in Mulhouse.

Major works

• Cite lacustrine by Port Grimaud in the Bay of Saint- Tropez
• Port -Cergy in Cergy -Pontoise
• Europe Tower in Mulhouse
• Puerto Escondido in Mexico
• Port Liberté in New York City
• Porto Cervo in Sardinia
• Port-Louis in Louisiana
• Resort Bendinat in Palma de Mallorca

Writings

• "Une ville qui réduirait la violence " (together with Paul Léauté ), 1980, in Sécurité et liberté, La documentation française
• L'Architecture douce, 1977 Édition Robert Laffont