Alexandre Léonard
Alexandre Léonard (赉安) is a Architecte French born with Paris the November 26th 1890, disappeared with Shanghai the March 13rd 1946.
Graduate of the Beautiful arts of Paris in 1919, it creates in 1922 with Paul Veysseyre the agency “Léonard-Veysseyre” with Shanghai, to which Arthur Kruze of 1934 will join 1939. In addition to the sporting Club French street Maoming, partly destroyed in 1986, the agency, whose principal silent partner is administrative Foncim of the real goods of the ISS (International Savings Society), will carry out investment property (gongyu) of which Béarn and Gascogne (street Huaihai), or Magy Apartments, but also the Heude museum, the police station Mallet, the Remi school, the Pasteur institute, Chung Wai bank, private residences and “buildings with small rents” which constitute the Chinese cities or Lilong suitable for the landscape shanghaien.
The buildings designed by Léonard with the vertical or horizontal lines underlined, often in angle of street, were protected and remain remarkable in the landscape of the French concession.
Sites in relation: http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/archives/dossiers/shanghai/moderne.html http://le-mystere-leonard.over-blog.com/
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