Bernard Zehrfuss

Bernard Louis Zehrfuss , born with Angers the October 20th 1911 and dead the July 3rd 1996, is a Architecte French.

Biography

Resulting from a family taken refuge of Alsace in 1870, his/her father is killed in 1914 at the time of the Bataille of the Marne. He enters to the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts as of the 18 years age the workshop of Emmanuel Pontremoli and obtains from First large Prix of Rome in 1939 for a project of " palate of the colonial empire français".

The war prevents it from accomplishing its stay with the Villa Médicis. After a course stay in Nice, it becomes assistant in the workshop that Eugene Beaudouin installed with Marseilles. It animates in parallel a group of brought together artists with Oppède in the Vaucluse. It made there the meeting in particular of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry. He obtains one leave-pass for Spain then engages in the free French Forces.

Arrived at Algiers, it is sent to Tunis and becomes director of the service of architecture of the public Work management of the protectorate of 1943 to 1948. He exerts in addition with Algiers where he builds multifamily apartments, until 1953.

Architect as a chief of the civil buildings and the national palates in 1956, he is general inspector of 1965 to 1968. He carries out a certain number of prestigious programs such as the Palate of UNESCO or CNIT. However, its 2 projects of installation of the new sector of Defense in 1958 and 1960 are abandoned in 1971. It also built many buildings of social habitat, in particular of the Haut of the hare which overhang Nancy.

In 1983, it is elected member of the Académie of the Art schools, of which he becomes the perpetual secretary in 1994, while succeeding Marcel Landowski.

Principal achievements

1939: Stage Charlety with Paris (destroyed and rebuilt in 1994 per Henry and Bruno Gaudin)
1950-1953: printing works the Marne with Turns in collaboration with Jean Proven
1950-1958: Factory Renault de Flins and the " city Flins " in the neighborhoods
1952-1958: sit of UNESCO to Paris in partnership with Marcel Breuer and Pier Luigi Nervi, then his extension (1965-1978)
1954-1958: CNIT with Defense in partnership with Robert Street pedlar and Jean de Mailly
1959-1963: district of the Haut of the hare which overhangs Nancy
1960: great whole of Clichy-sous-Bois - Montfermeil
1960-1963: Faculty of Science of the university of Tunis
1962-1967: residential buildings (5 turns of 15 stages - 370 residences) 120-126 avenue Jean Jaurès with Puppet
1962-1970: embassy of France with Warsaw in collaboration with Henry Bernard and Guillaume Waistcoat (entirely rehabilitated by Jean-Philippe Pargade in 2004)
1967: Garonor with Aulnay-sous-Bois
1968: sit of the company Sandoz - France with Rueil-Malmaison
1970: embassy of the Denmark to Paris
1972: sit of Siemens - France with the Plain Saint-Denis
1972-1975: Museum of the Graeco-Roman civilization in Lyon
1973: Anjou turn with Defense, commune of Puteaux
1976: sit of Jeumont- Schneider with Puteaux
1976: residential buildings of the small islands " Procession" and " Falguière" in the 15th district of Paris (1200 and 387 residences)

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