Eugène Jost (18 September 1865,

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- 24 January 1946,

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) was a Swiss architect of the Belle Époque.

Life

Eugène Jost initially studied at the industrial school in Corsier before moving to Paris, where he studied architecture at the école nationale supérieure des beaux-arts between 1884 and 1891 under

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then

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. He won several prizes, medals and internal competitions and then returned to Switzerland, specializing in

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s. He set up his practice in

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, a wealthy tourist spot. In twenty years he built nearly fifty buildings, mostly long-lasting and large. In 1904 he moved to Lausanne in the wake of several projects ( hôtel des Postes on Saint-François, restoration of

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and design for a room at the Grand Conseil vaudois). He won first prize in the national competition for the Hôtel des Postes in

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and second prize for that in Zurich and also created commemorative monuments to

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and Major Davel. His pace of work was slowed by the

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and he retired for good in 1931.

References

Bibliography

* Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber, ''Architektenlexikon der Schweiz 19./20. Jahrhundert'', Bâle, Boston, Berlin 1998, pp. 300–301. * Dave Lüthi (ed), ''Eugène Jost : architecte du passé retrouvé'', Lausanne Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (Les archives de la construction moderne 8), 2001. * Dave Lüthi, ''Pour une Cité pittoresque : quatre projets de l'architecte Eugène Jost (1894-1899)'', in ''Mémoire vive, pages d'histoire lausannoises'', 10, , 2001. * Roland Flückiger-Seiler, ''Hotelträume : zwischen Gletschern und Palmen, Schweizer Tourismus und Hotelbau, 1830-1920'', Baden : Hier + Jetzt Verlag für Kultur und Geschichte, 2005. * ''Eugène Jost, architecte: 1865-1946'' in: ''A suivre'' (Bulletin de la Section vaudoise de Patrimoine suisse) n° 56 et 57 (janvier-mai 2012).

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* ''Patrie suisse'', 1906, no 340, p. 326. * "Eugène Jost, architecte", in ''Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande'', 1946, p. 108
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