Raymond Lopez

Raymond Lopez is a Architecte and Urbaniste French of the 20th century, born in 1904 and deceased in 1966.

Biography

After studies with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts, it is named architect as a chief of the civil buildings and the national palates. It was indicated in 1958 to work in the directing town-planning of Paris. Its vision of town planning was to demolish existing constructions and to replace them by new rational and structured buildings, primarily based on a vertical distribution. It takes part in many plans of installation of cities such as Dakar, Nevers, Holy-Menehould, Saint-Valéry-in-Caux and for the Nantes area . It starts the development of the urban projects of the Halles and Maine Montparnasse.

He was professor with the special École of architecture, with the National school of the Highways Departments then with Polytechnic school.

Principal achievements

  • 1936 : Hospital Augustin Morvan (near to the place of Freedom) with Brest, in collaboration with Raymond Gravereaux
  • 1937: house of the private architecture of the International exhibition (destroyed)
  • 1948-1951: sit of the National federation of the building - Paris (with Jean Prouvé)
  • 1952: Central case of family benefits, called the Lopez Tower, street Viala in the 15th district of Paris (first curtain wall with structure aluminum suspended)
  • 1956: church of Saint-Valéry-in-Caux
  • 1957: residential building close to the Tiergarten of Berlin in collaboration with Eugene Beaudouin
  • 1957: Inquire into the unhealthy sectors of Paris
  • 1959-1961: turn Wood-the-Priest, in the 17th district of Paris (in the course of rehabilitation by Anne Lacaton and Vassal Jean-Philippe)
  • 1959-1966: plan of installation of ZAC of the the Face-of-Seine with Henry Pottier in the 15e district of Paris
  • years 1950: Mantes-the-Pretty rebuilding of the historical center of
  • 1959-1966: Town-planner as a chief of the Urban development zone (ZUP) the Valley-Thicket with Mantes-the-Pretty: 8300 built residences
  • years 1960: Residences Saint-Maclou and Saint-Roch with Mantes-the-Pretty
  • 1964: Public library of Mantes-the-Pretty

References

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