Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner.
Life
Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the
École des Beaux-Arts
; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
in the ateliers of
Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié. Jaussely 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 ...
for architecture in 1903, and would eventually run his own atelier at the school. Jaussely took the prestigious Prix
Chaudesaigues.
As a young graduate he was the winner, among five entrants, of the city plan for the expansion of
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
. The Plan Jaussely was officially adopted in 1907 and although never completed, it guided the development of the city for decades.
Jaussely was also the chief planner of the 1925
International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in
Grenoble
Grenoble ( ; ; or ; or ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Isère Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region ...
. Jaussely's individual building designs include the 1931
Palais de la Porte Dorée, built for the Paris
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 ...
(with fellow architects
Albert Laprade and
Léon Bazin), and the 1932 headquarters for the
La Dépêche du Midi
''La Dépêche'', formally ''La Dépêche du Midi'' (), is a regional daily newspaper published in Toulouse in Southwestern France with seventeen editions for different areas of the Midi-Pyrénées region. The main local editions are for Toul ...
in Toulouse. He was the co-founder in 1911 of the French Society of Planners, with
Henri Prost and others. He was appointed Officer of the Legion of Honor.
31 - Toulouse - Poste SAINT-AUBIN, 1928 par Léon JAUSSELY (architecte).jpg, Postal office quartier St Aubin de Toulouse, 1928
Bordeaux Centre de tri Saint-Jean art-déco 4.JPG, Postal office of Saint-Jean de Bordeaux, 1929
Immeuble dit de La Dépêche du Midi, Toulouse.jpg, Building of ''La Dépêche'', rue Alsace-Lorraine in Toulouse
Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
1932
See also
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Urban planning of Barcelona
The urban planning of Barcelona developed in accordance with the History of Barcelona, historical and territorial changes of the city, and in line with other defining factors of public space, such as Architecture of Barcelona, architecture, urban ...
References
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1875 births
1932 deaths
20th-century French architects
French urban planners
Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery
Prix de Rome for architecture
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Architects from Toulouse
Knights of the Legion of Honour