- Bernard Zehrfuss
Bernard Louis Zehrfuss (October 20, 1911 in
Angers – July 3, 1996 inNeuilly-sur-Seine ) was a Frencharchitect .Zehrfuss attended the
École des Beaux-Arts inParis from the age of 18 and won its most prestigious award, thePrix de Rome in 1939. His first major design was the Sébastien Charléty Stadium in Paris, 1939. Prevented from traveling toRome by the war, he became an assistant inEugene Beaudouin 'sMarseilles workshop, obtained a visa forSpain and engaged in theFree French Forces .In French-controlled
Algeria andTunisia from 1943 through 1953, Zehrfuss was appointed to office in the Directorate of Public Works and built many well-received housing projects, schools and hospitals.On return to France he was made Chief Architect of Public Buildings and National Palaces and participated in two high-profile projects: the 1953 European headquarters of
UNESCO , a collaboration withMarcel Breuer andPier Luigi Nervi , and the 1958Center of New Industries and Technologies , one of the first buildings ofLa Défense . These stand among many French housing projects and embassies through the 1960s and 1970s.In 1983, Zehrfuss was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, where he became the perpetual secretary in 1994, succeeding
Marcel Landowski .References
* cite web
title = Zehrfuss Bernard Louis
work =Internetowa encyklopedia PWN
url = http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4000991
language = Polish
publisher = Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN
accessdate = 2008-08-13
* cite web
title = Zehrfuss Bernard
work =WIEM Encyklopedia
url = http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/83174,,,,zehrfuss_bernard,haslo.html
language = Polish
accessdate = 2008-08-13
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