Henri Prost
( Léon ) Henri Prost ( born February 25, 1874 in Paris, † July 16, 1959 ) was a French architect and town planner. His main areas of activity were the Greater Paris, Casablanca, the Moroccan coast and Istanbul. Already in the 1920s warned Prost before the disastrous consequences of landscape destruction by unbridled construction activity.
Training
Cheers studied at the École Spéciale d'Architecture ( whose director he should be later) and the École des Beaux -Arts, both in Paris. He was a pupil of Marcel Lambert. In 1902 he won the Prix de Rome ( Prix de Rome ) for the design of the building of a national printing company. In 1910 he was awarded first prize in the competition for the reorganization of the infrastructure of Antwerp. A similar task for Paris in 1911, he worked together with Eugène Alfred Hénard and Donat- Alfred Agache; his concept of linked external areas of the city with the center by a system of roads and green corridors.
Work
Prost's first work in the oriental room was a restructuring plan for the Hagia Sophia. 1913 Prost was invited by Hubert Lyautey to become active urban planning in Morocco. He designed for Casablanca a port on a drained area and a representative stretch of road in the type of Canebiere in Marseille. He also stated plans along the nearby places of the Moroccan coast.
1936, Prost an invitation to Turkey by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who entrusted him with the Master Plan for Istanbul. After two years of analysis, he designed new buildings, roads, bridges, squares and parks. He tried to maintain the social fabric of the Old Town district centers. He had to cancel the Topçu barracks and the Taksim Stadium for Gezi Park in the Beyoğlu district. He gave freely of sight of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus. Prost's stay in Turkey lasted until 1951.
Cheers taught at the Institute d' Urbanisme University of Paris. He was instrumental in the founding of the Société française with the urbanistes.