Henri-Jean Calsat
Henri-Jean Calsat is an architect and town planner French, born on March 12th 1905 with Chauny in the Aisne and dead on October 6th 1991 with Paris. Credit primarily during the glorious Thirty, it carried out a very great number of urban projects in France, but also in Algérie, Africa in general and in the whole world.
Biography
Born with Chauny (Aisne), he is qualified engineer of the School of work public in 1926 and graduate architect of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts in 1931. In parallel, it follows studies to the École of Louvre, the National school of the charters and the Medical college of Paris.
It carries out its first projects marking with Poissy where it realizes in collaboration with Pierre Mathé, the town hall, the theater and a school complex. Architect as a chief of the civil buildings and national palates, it created thereafter his own cabinet and carries out many projects of town planning. He carries out a certain number of projects in the French colonies of the time, first of all in Algérie, but also with the Cameroun, in Ivory Coast and with the Congo. He specializes in particular in the construction of hospital in these countries and becomes consulting for this reason for WHO during about fifteen year. After the decolonization, it carries out in France a great number of projects of urban developments and residences in Alsace, Lorraine and in the Département of Seine-et-Marne.
Engineer of formation, it is hardly interested in the architectural debates of the time and prefers to center his reflection with town planning. He thus teaches with the special École of public works and the special École of architecture in Paris, like at the School of architecture of Geneva.
He bequeaths to his death the whole of his files at the Institute of architecture and town planning of Geneva where they can be consulted.
Principal achievements
- 1936 - 1937: Town hall, theater and school complex (current College Jean Jaurès) with Poissy, in collaboration with Pierre Mathé and Florent Nanquette. Decorations of low-relief by Os Zadkine (registered ISMH)
- 1950 - 1954: general hospital of Brazzaville, with the Congo
- 1954: head post office of Douala, with the Cameroun
- 1957 - 1969: Installation of the Urban development zone (ZUP) of Fameck (the Moselle)
- 1958 - 1961: Plan of installation of Constantine, in Algeria
- 1959 - 1962: Plan of installation of Philippeville, current Skikda in Algeria
- 1959 - 1960: Prefecture of Colomb-Bèchar, current Béchar in Algeria
- 1959 - 1973: Installation of ZUP of Chenôve, near Dijon
- 1960 - 1966: Center bioclimatic recheches with Strasbourg - Schiltigheim
- 1960 - 1981: Installation of ZUP of Mount-Saint-Martin with Nemours (Seine-et-Marne)
- 1960 - 1972: Rémodélation of the urban center of Chelles (Seine-et-Marne)
- 1960 - 1977: Plan of installation of ZUP of Vandoeuvre-the-Nancy
- 1965 - 1966: Hospital Etienne Sabatié with Libourne (the Gironde)
- 1972 - 1978: together of dwelling of the Wood Bridge with Villeneuve-in Ascq
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