Édith Girard (1949 – 6 September 2014) was a French architect who in particular designed a number of apartment buildings in the Paris area.
Biography
Girard was born and lived in Paris. Girard's main developments include apartment buildings in the
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and
19th arrondissements of Paris and in the Aunettes district of
Évry in the southern suburbs. She also designed the Cité de Kerigonan in
Brest. Girard taught at the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture.
["Recent Innovative Social Housing Architecture in France and the United Kingdom"]
''Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication: Direction de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine''. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
Selected works
Among Edith Girard's social housing developments are:
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*227 PLA housing units in the îlot Carnot, Stains (completed 1984)
*111 PLI housing units, quai de Loire, Paris – Awarded the "Equerre d'argent" (1985)
*107 PLA housing units in the Aunettes development in Évry (1987)
*82 PLA housing units and 5 artists' studios in the Rue du Chevaleret, Paris (1990)
*128 PLA housing units in the Kerigonan quarter, Brest (1990)
*120 PLA housing units in the îlot Carnot, Stains (1992).
*62 PLA housing units in the Hautes-Bruyères ZAC development, ]Villejuif
Villejuif () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
Name
The earliest reference to Villejuif appears in a bill signed by the Pope Callixtus II on 27 November 1119. It refers to Villa J ...
(1993)
*35 PLI housing units in the Rue de Flandre, Paris (1993)
*72 PLI housing units in the Rue des Vignoles, Paris (1994)
*20 housing units in The Hague
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, Netherlands (1997)
*94 PLA housing units in Vitry-sur-Seine
Vitry-sur-Seine () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris.
Name
Vitry-sur-Seine was originally called simply Vitry. The name Vitry comes from Medieval Latin ''Vitriacum'', and before that ''Victori ...
– Housing Award (1999)
*Conversion of an office building into 41 housing units in the Rue de Turenne, Paris (1999)
*24 artists' studios in ''Saint-Ouen'' (2000)
*48 PLA housing units in Villejuif (2000)
*36 PLA housing units in the Malassis quarter, Bagnolet
Bagnolet () is a Communes of France, commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris.
History
On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occa ...
(2001).
References
External links
List of works by Édith Girard
from PSS.
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1949 births
2014 deaths
20th-century French architects
Architects from Paris
French women architects
20th-century French women