Georges-Henri Pingusson
Georges- Henri Pingusson ( born July 26, 1894 in Clermont- Ferrand, † October 22, 1978 in Paris) was a French engineer, architect and urban planner.
Life
The son of an industrialist studied from 1913 first Engineering and Architecture from 1919 to 1925 in the workshops of Gustave Umbdenstock and Paul Tournon at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris. In 1930 he became a member of the Union des Artistes Modernes. From 1949 to 1957 he was its president.
Broad of his work
Together with his fellow student Paul Furiet he planned the thermal power plant Arrighi in Vitry -sur -Seine (1926 ), the Ternisien - residential building in Boulogne- Billancourt (1927 ) and several villas in Cannes and Biarritz. So he built the Villa Isola Serena ( 1927) and influenced by the idea of Frank Lloyd Wright's Villa Romée (1928 ). He became famous for the bold modernity of the Théâtre des Menus- Revels, today's Comédie de Paris, with features of Postcubism and Dadaism. He created his masterpiece with the Hotel Latitude 43 in Saint- Tropez in the style of the Modern Movement, whose enthusiastic representative it counts. After the Second World War, he was commissioned to urban development plans in the region of Metz, Sarreguemines and Briey en Forêt. The Head of Section urbanisme et Reconstruction in the military government of the Saar, Marcel Roux and André Sive, appointed him to the planning team and entrusted him with the reconstruction and reorganization of the heavily damaged town of Saarbrücken. From 1950 to 1955 he led the restructuring of the municipality Waldwisse on the border of Saarland. From 1950 to 1952 he established the French Embassy in Saarbrücken. The religious edifices created by him are the Église de la Vierge de la Nativity in Fleury (1955-1963), the Église Saint -Martin- Évêque in Corny- sur -Moselle (1960) and the Église Saint -Antoine in Boust ( 1955-1963 ). In the Paris Ile de la Cité (1961-1962) he planned the memorial to the martyrs of the deportation. He was also commissioned to rebuild the medieval village of Grillon in the Vaucluse department ( 1974-1978 ).