Jacques Harold Edouard Debat-Ponsan (Copenhagen, 21 August 1882 - Paris, 1942) was a French architect.
Life
Debat-Ponsan studied in the ''atelier'' of
Victor Laloux
Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux (15 November 1850 – 13 July 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher.
Life
Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, with his studies i ...
at the
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Scienc ...
in Paris. He took the
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...
in 1912 and was resident at the
Villa Medici
The Villa Medici () is a Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, ...
from January 1913 to February 1915.
Following the First World War, Debat-Ponsan was engaged in reconstruction projects, then in 1928 was named architect-in-chief of the French national ''
Postes, télégraphes et téléphones'' administration (PTT).
Debat-Ponsan was the son of French painter
Édouard Debat-Ponsan, and the uncle of French Prime Minister
Michel Debré
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 195 ...
.
Work
* Paris telephone central office for exchange "Ségur", 55 Avenue de Saxe (1900)
* urban planning and reconstruction of
Cambrai, with fellow architects Pierre Leprince-Ringuet and Marc Germain Debré (beginning 1919)
* reconstruction of
Driencourt
Driencourt (; Picard: ''Dryincourt'' ) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
Driencourt is situated on the D181 road, some northwest of Saint-Quentin.
Population
History
As with many towns in ...
(1920-1927)
* PTT Administration Building, 20 Avenue de Segur (1931-1939)
* Paris telephone central office for exchange "Suffren", Avenue de Suffren (1933)
* École Jean-Baptiste Clément,
Boulogne-Billancourt (1934)
* ''Unité de formation et de recherche biomédicale des Saints-Pères'' at
Paris Descartes University, with Louis Madeline and Armand Guéritte (begun 1936, interrupted by the war, dedicated 1953)
* Villa Douce,
Reims, with Pol Gosset (1929-1932)
* City Hall at
Boulogne-Billancourt, with
Tony Garnier (1931–34)
References
External links
biography (in French)
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1882 births
1942 deaths
20th-century French architects
Prix de Rome for architecture
École des Beaux-Arts alumni