Pierre Dufau

Pierre Dufau (born on June 21st 1908 with Arras and deceased on September 26th 1985 with Paris) is a French architect and town planner. He was architect as a chief of the civil buildings and palates national.

Biography

Wire of architect, he is pupil of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts within the workshop of Gabriel Héraud. Graduate in 1937, it is first second large Prix of Rome in 1938.

As from 1940, it is in load of rebuilding works of Amiens, ravaged by the multiple bombardments. It extends to 20 meters the street of Three-Stones, to make the counterpoint of the North-South historical axis of it (street Saint-Leu/Route of Saint-Fuscien). Architecture takes again brick, material traditional of Picardy. It occupies this station until 1954.

Launched after war thanks to many contracts with NATO, prize winner of many contests, it is with the head of one of the greatest agencies of the Thirty glorious ones, with 600 achievements with his credit. During two years, he works for the Presidency of the Republic of Coast-in Ivoire, between 1960 and 1962. He collaborates in the construction of several nuclear plants.

In 1967, it is named architect as a chief of the program of town planning Nouveau Creteil, following Jean Fayeton. It draws in particular the plan of the Town hall (1972) and of the hospital (1977). Its associates are, as from 1970, Jean-Pierre Dacbert, Michel Stenzel and Jean-Claude Moreau. It in addition carries out a very great number of head offices and turn in the district of Defense.

He is in addition the author of several polemical books on the architecture of his time.

Principal achievements

1952-1956 : air bases of USAFE (with Grad Seelye) to Chaumont-Seymoutiers, Brienne-the-Castle, Toul-Rosières, etc
1952: head office of the Bank Louis Dreyfus, Paris
1957: French Petroleum Institute, Rueil-Malmaison
1959-1967: Nuclear plant of Chinon with Jean Desmaret
1959: sport hall of the Porte de Versailles, in the 15th district of Paris with Parjadis de Larivière and Richard Buckminster Fuller
1962-1965: sit of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique in the 15th district of Paris
1963: Hotel Hilton, avenue of Maine, in the 14th district of Paris
1964 - 1965: embassy of France, Phnom Penh (Kampuchea)
1966: Palate of the spectacles, Saint-Etienne
1967: head office of the Belgian royal Company, with Watermael-Boitsfort close to Brussels (Belgium)
1966-1968: airport of Accra (Ghana)
1969: Charles de Gaulle Station - Star of the RER has, Paris
1969-1974: Turn Septenrion, Defense, Courbevoie
1971-1974: Turn UAP, Defense, Courbevoie
1972-1974: town hall of Creteil
1972-1975: shopping mall Creteil Sun
1973: Nuclear plant of Fessenheim
1973-1975: building and drugstore Publicis, Which occurred of the Fields-Élysées in the 8th district of Paris
1975-1976: offices of SNECMA in the 15th district of Paris
1975: prefecture of the Gironde, Bordeaux
1977-1979: Nuclear plant of Paluel (Seine-Maritime)
1977-1980: enlarging of the inter-commune Hospital of Creteil

Principal works of the architect

France of today: the occupation of architect ED. Hatier, 1958-1964-1968
Not with ub-town planning , ED. Flammarion, 1964 (coll " Brave New World ")
(with Albert Laprade), For or against the demolition of Paris , ED. Shepherd-Levrault, 1967
Paris and the Province: Urbanization and the common direction ED. The Roundtable, 1968
(with Yves Cazeaux), Program and futurology in the construction industry , ED. Shepherd-Levrault, 1969 (coll " The Administration nouvelle").

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