Léon-Emile Bazin (1900-1976) was a French architect.
Life
Léon-Emile Bazin was born in
Lausanne
, neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...
, Switzerland, in 1900.
In 1915 he joined the firm of
Henri Prost
Henri Prost (February 25, 1874 – July 16, 1959) was a French architect and urban planner. He was noted in particularly for his work in Morocco and Turkey, where he created a number of comprehensive city plans for Casablanca, Fes, Marrakes ...
, where he met
Albert Laprade
Albert Laprade (29 November 1883 – 9 May 1978) was a French architect, perhaps best known for the Palais de la Porte Dorée.
During a long career he undertook many urban renewal projects as well as major industrial and commercial works.
A ski ...
and
Joseph Marrast
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
.
In 1923 he enrolled in 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 Science ...
, and graduated in 1930.
In 1925 Bazin entered into a partnership with Albert Laprade that lasted until 1936.
Bazin won a competition in 1929 for the Porte d'Honneur of the 1931
Paris Colonial Exposition
The Paris Colonial Exhibition (or "''Exposition coloniale internationale''", International Colonial Exhibition) was a six-month colonial exhibition held in Paris, France, in 1931 that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resour ...
,
although only after accepting many modifications suggested by the jury.
Bazin collaborated on many of Laprade's projects.
These included the garage on Rue Marbeuf, which won much praise internationally, the ''Écho du Nord'' building in
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
and the
Palais de la Porte Dorée
The Palais de la Porte Dorée is an exhibit hall located on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes at 293, avenue Daumesnil, 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. It now houses the Musée de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, as well as a tropical aquarium ...
for the 1931 Colonial Exhibition.
Louis Bouquet
Louis Bouquet (6 December 1885 – 25 February 1952) was a French artist and illustrator.
Louis Bouquet was born in Lyon on 6 December 1885.
He attended the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and then the École nationale supérieure ...
created a painting named ''Souvenir du Musée des Colonies'' that depicts the men who worked on the Palais de la Porte Dorée: Laprade and Bazin, Bouquet himself, the sculptor
Alfred Janniot
Alfred Auguste Janniot (13 June 1889 – 18 July 1969) was a French Art Deco sculptor most active in the 1930s.
Biography
Janniot was educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, a pupil of Jean Antoine Injalbert, and was the winner of the 1919 Pr ...
and the interior decorator
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann. The painting also includes an anonymous black woman wearing only a skirt, resembling
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted Fran ...
, who represents the indigenous colonial people.
Bazin worked with Laprade on the competition for the
Génissiat Dam
The Génissiat Dam (French language, French: ''Barrage de Génissiat'') is a hydroelectric dam on the Rhône in France near the village of Injoux-Génissiat.
Construction began in 1937, but was delayed by World War II, and the dam did not start ge ...
.
Bazin left Leprade in 1936 to form his own agency.
However, Laprade and Bazin worked together to design the Peace Monument in the
Place du Trocadero for the 1937
. They also collaborated on the pavilion for diffusion of the French language and the pavilion and garden of Iraq.
Bazin was appointed chief architect for reconstruction of the
Loiret
Loiret (; ) is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It takes its name from the river Loiret, which is contained wholly within the department. In 2019, Loiret had a population of 680,434. department in 1941.
After the liberation of France in 1944 he was reappointed to this position, and in 1950 became consulting architect to
Loiret
Loiret (; ) is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It takes its name from the river Loiret, which is contained wholly within the department. In 2019, Loiret had a population of 680,434. and
Loir-et-Cher
Loir-et-Cher (, ) is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. Its name is originated from two rivers which cross it, the Loir in its northern part and the Cher in its southern part. Its prefecture is Blois. The INSEE and La P ...
.
In 1947 he became consultant architect for
Électricité de France
Électricité de France S.A. (literally ''Electricity of France''), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state. Headquartered in Paris, with €71.2 billion in revenues in 2 ...
and the
Compagnie Nationale du Rhône
The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) is a French electricity generation company, mainly supplying renewable power from hydroelectric facilities on the Rhone.
Operations
Established in 1933, as of 2009 the company derives most of its power fr ...
and in this role undertook a number of power plants.
He was appointed chief architect of civilian buildings and national monuments in 1959,
and was attached to the Museum of African and Oceanic Art at the Palais de la Porte Dorée he had helped to build with Laprade.
Following
Louis Arretche Louis may refer to:
* Louis (coin)
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
* HMS Louis, HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
Derived or associated te ...
he worked on the reconstruction of
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast.
The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...
, the housing estate at Melun and the new city of
Orléans-La Source.
Léon-Emile Bazin died in Paris in 1976 .
Works
Solo projects are listed below. He also worked with Albert Laprade on many projects in the 1930s.
*1946-1947: creation of the "Maison Grames" in the experimental subdivision "Cité de Merlan" in
Noisy-le-Sec
Noisy-le-Sec () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Population
Heraldry
Transport
Noisy-le-Sec is served by Noisy-le-Sec station on Paris RER line E.
Education
Schools:[< ...]
, Seine-Saint-Denis (House with steel structure and steel panels)
*1957: development of the area around the hydroelectric plant of
Montélimar
Montélimar (; Vivaro-Alpine: ''Montelaimar'' ; la, Acumum) is a town in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in north Provence, Southeastern France. It is the second-largest city in the department after Valence. In 2018, ...
for the
Compagnie Nationale du Rhône
The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) is a French electricity generation company, mainly supplying renewable power from hydroelectric facilities on the Rhone.
Operations
Established in 1933, as of 2009 the company derives most of its power fr ...
*1957: Building at 57 Avenue Reille in the
14th arrondissement of Paris
The 14th arrondissement of Paris ( ), officially named ''arrondissement de l'Observatoire'' (; meaning "arrondissement of the Observatory", after the Paris Observatory), is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. It is situa ...
*1959-1968: quarter of the
Gare d'Orléans Gare is the word for "station" in French and related languages, commonly meaning railway station
Gare can refer to:
People
* Gare (surname), surname
* The Gare Family, fictional characters in the novel '' Wild Geese'' by Martha Ostenso
Places
* ...
(administrative center, Pasteur housing complex and Chapel)
*1962-1976: chief architect of the priority development area of Almont in
Melun
Melun () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, north-central France. It is located on the southeastern outskirts of Paris, about from the kilome ...
, Seine-et-Marne (3129 units)
*1968: Development of the chutel of the power station at
Bourg-lès-Valence for the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône
*1973: Building of the Department of Studies and Research of EDF in
Clamart
Clamart () is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
The town is divided into two parts, separated by a forest: ''bas Clamart'', the historical centre, and ''petit Clamart'' with urbaniz ...
, Hauts-de-Seine
References
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1900 births
1976 deaths
People from Lausanne
20th-century French architects
École des Beaux-Arts alumni