Georges-Henri Pingusson
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Biography
Georges-Henri Pingusson was born 1894 in Clermont-FerrandClermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...
. 1920-1925 he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He built hotel Latitude 43 and several villas in the south of France. 1936 he greatly expanded Villa Ternisien in Paris, which had been designed by Pierre Jeanneret
Pierre Jeanneret
Pierre Jeanneret was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his more famous brother Charles Edouard Jeanneret for about twenty years....
and Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
just nine years before and was almost completely demolished in the process.
1945-1950 Pingusson worked on a master plan for the reconstruction of Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....
based on the ideals of the Athens Charter
Athens Charter
The Athens Charter, or Charte d'Athènes was a document about urban planning published by the Swiss architect, Le Corbusier in 1943. The work was based upon Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse book of 1935 and urban studies undertaken by the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne in the early...
. His plan was accepted by the city council, but it was never executed. His design for the French embassy was executed after he had left the city.
As chief architect for the reconstruction of the Moselle
Moselle
Moselle is a department in the east of France named after the river Moselle.- History :Moselle is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
and Lorraine
Lorraine (région)
Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...
regions (1949–1961) he was responsible for the reconstruction of towns after the war. Waldwisse
Waldwisse
Waldwisse is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France....
, destroyed in the war, was reconstructed according to his zoning plan, as was Briey-en-Fôret
Briey
Briey is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.It is located above and in a steep section of the valley of the little River Woigot, some thirty kilometres to the west of the autoroute that connects Metz with Luxembourg...
, where he designed several public buildings and invited Le Corbusier to build an Unité d'Habitation
Unité d'Habitation
The Unité d'Habitation is the name of a modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso...
.
He was a member of the Union des artistes modernes (UAM) from 1929 until its dissolution in 1958 and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Pingusson died in 1978.
Works
Incomplete list of works (source Künstlerlexikon Saar unless indicated otherwise):- hippodrome de la Canche, Le Touquet-Paris-PlageLe Touquet-Paris-PlageLe Touquet-Paris-Plage, commonly referred to as Le Touquet, is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It has a population of 5,355....
(with Paul Furiet) (1925) - Villa Caron, BiarritzBiarritzBiarritz is a city which lies on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast, in south-western France. It is a luxurious seaside town and is popular with tourists and surfers....
- Villa Isola Serena, CannesCannesCannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
(1927) - Villa La Romée, Cannes (1928)
- Hotel Latitude 43, Saint-TropezSaint-TropezSaint-Tropez is a town, 104 km to the east of Marseille, in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. It is also the principal town in the canton of Saint-Tropez....
(1929–1932) - Villa Ternisien, Boulogne-BillancourtBoulogne-BillancourtBoulogne-Billancourt is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Boulogne-Billancourt is a sub-prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt....
, rue Denfert-Rochereau 5 (1936) - église Saint-Maximin, BoustBoustBoust is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France....
- église Saint-Martin, Corny-sur-MoselleCorny-sur-MoselleCorny-sur-Moselle is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.-See also:*Communes of the Moselle department...
- reconstruction of WaldwisseWaldwisseWaldwisse is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France....
(1948–1955) - French embassy, SaarbrückenSaarbrückenSaarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....
(1950–1954) - Mémorial de la DéportationMemorial de la DeportationThe Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation is a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. It is in Paris, France on the site of a former morgue, underground behind Notre Dame on Île de la Cité...
, Paris (1962)