Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier (August 13rd 1869 with Lyon - January 19th 1948 with Roquefort-the-Bédoule), is a Architecte and town planner French.

It should not be confused with the architect Charles Garnier (Opéra Garnier in Paris)

A prestigious formation and an achievement appropriateness

He makes his studies with the Technical training school Martinière in Lyon (1883), then at the School of Beautiful arts of Lyon (1886). Raise Paul Blondel and from Louis-Henri-Georges Scellier de Gisors, it obtains the First Grand Prix of Rome in 1899 and after six tentatives.
The subject of the final test is entitled: " A hotel for the central seat of a bank of État".

This price enables him to remain with the Académie from France to Rome, of December 29th 1899 at December 31st 1903. It carries out a series of watercolours besides there representing various sites of the city.

At the time of the arrival of Edouard Herriot with the town hall of Lyon in 1905, great work is entrusted to him, in particular in the Lyons east, theater of the principal urban extension of Lyon at that time.

Tony Garnier dies on January 19th 1948 with Roquefort-the-Bédoule. Its body is repatriated with Lyon in November 1949, with the Cimetière of Cross-Russet-red the, where it is buried.

Principal achievements

slaughter-houses of the fly (1906 - 1932), vast unit including the market Tony Garnier
the Market Tony Garnier (1909 - 1928), 20, place Antonin Perrin, Lyon 7th. Old Lyons slaughter-houses, with metal structure.
Elle is classified in 1975 Historic building. This market measures 210 m by 80 Mr. It is used nowadays like versatile room (exposures, spectacles, concerts, etc), following the restoration carried out by the architects Bernard Reichen and Philippe Robert
the Hôpital Edouard-Herriot (Barn-White in the past) (1910 - 1933), place of Arsonval, Lyon 3rd. It is today about the largest hospital of the area the Rhone-Alps. Its characteristic is to be made up of multiple houses dedicated functionally within a framework of greenery, with a medical circulation by an underground grid of gangways. This organization is the reflection of the principles hygienists steady to architecture since the end of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century.
the Stage of Gerland (1914 - 1926), Lyon 7th
the district of the United States (1919 - 1933), Lyon 8th, in which is currently the urban museum Tony Garnier
Town hall of Boulogne-Billancourt

Ideology and guiding principles

Tony Garnier is the author of a urban Utopie richly illustrated proposing an ideal city being based on a separation of the urban functions and activities, which it presents like memory final to the Grand Prix of Rome. He proposes an industrial Cité there 35000 inhabitants entirely in Béton armed and glass, which causes the contempt of the academicians of the jury and his French fellow-members on his return. This project, exposed in 164 precise plans until in depth of construction, influences thereafter the ideal models of urbanization of the first years of the Soviet Union. One can see reproductions of some of his boards to the urban museum Tony Garnier (district from the United States in Lyon).

This Architect Lyons emblematic, with the particularly recognizable style, conceives its units - the such Herriot hospital or the city of the United States - as a city in miniature, in the wake of the great Utopias Socialiste S of the 19th century, and being based on the principle of the garden cities which are carried out at the same time in Europe and the the United States.

Its architectural reflection is characterized by the adoption of formal and typological principles strong, the such abandonment of the courses, the use of Piloti S, the search for an inside-outside report/ratio and small islands known as opened, which inspire later architecture and town planning.

External bonds

http://www.museeurbaintonygarnier.com/
http://www.culture.fr/culture/inventai/itiinv/archixx/pann/p58.htm
Base Mérimée
Site proposing an animation in 3D of the industrial '' Cité ''

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