page_title: Albert Laprade
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Laprade / Works
caption_attribution_description: Ile Seguin, ancienne usine Renault.
context_page_description: Albert Laprade 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 skilled artist, he published a series of sketch books of architecture in France and other Mediterranean countries.
context_section_description: Laprade's work reflected many of the changes in 20th-century architecture during his long career,
  but he always remained true to the principles of aesthetics, balance and proportion.
  He and other architects of his time struggled with the challenge of building modern structures in Paris without destroying the harmony of the city's architecture. In 1931 he created a series of photomontages that illustrated the problem, showing skyscrapers emerging from among 19th-century buildings.
  Laprade also had to deal with the issue of how much the French should adapt to indigenous styles in the colonies.
  In 1928 Laprade described the new architectural style that was emerging in Morocco as a "synthesis of our Latin spirit and love for autochthonous art".
  Laprade saw the architect's goal as integrating "values of ambience" with a "whole way of life". 
  He thought that architecture was alive, and "should express a sentiment."
  Laprade believed in variety and complexity of the urban environment rather than uniformity, and was opposed to vandalism in the name of development of old quarters. 
  He followed both traditional and modern styles. 
  In some of his urban development work such as in Gournay-en-Bray (1942) and the old center of Le Mans he used a picturesque style.
  He used modern designs for commercial and industrial projects, which included the Citröen garage, rue Marbeuf (1928), Génissiat dam on the Rhône (1939-1950), Roselend dam at La Bâthie (1954-1961) and the development of the Renault factories on Seguin island at Boulogne-Billancourt (1944-1951).
  Selected works:
  1916 El Hank lighthouse, Casablanca, with Henri Prost
  1916-1921: Parc Lyautey, Casablanca, with Henri Porst
  1918-1924: General Residence, the seat of the French government in Rabat
  1920: Reconstruction of the Château de Gerbéviller
  1924: Restoration of the Château de la Chaise
  1925: Jardins des Nympheas and Jardins des Oiseaux for the 1925 International Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris
  1925-1929: works for a fertilizer factory, Berry-Bouy
  1925-1930: the Marquise Maurigi Villa, Port Cors
  1926-1928: Villa Magdalena and garden, Bénodet, Brittany
  1927 Villa Dardiali, Pyla-sur-Mer
  1931: Pavilion for French overseas territories in the Paris Colonial Exhibition, the Palais de la Porte Dorée, which now houses the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration
  1932: Foundation of Abreu Grancher in the Student Village Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
  1933-1935: Workers' settlement in Colombe
  1933-1937 French Embassy in Ankara, with Léon Bazin
  1935: Monument for Hubert Lyautey, Casablanca
  1936: La Voix du Nord newspaper building, Lille.
  1937: Iraqi pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris
  1939: Villa Prince Murat, Fédala (Mohammedia), Morocco.  Built for prince Charles Murat (16 June 1892 - 24 November 1973).  Destroyed in June 2013.
  1941: Place d'Armes, Valenciennes
  1947: Seyssel Dam
  1945-1960: Civic Center in Lille, with other architects
  1949-1951: Lucien Paye Residence, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in collaboration with Jean Vernon and Bruno Philippe
  1949-1953 House of Morocco, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in collaboration with Jean Vernon and Bruno Philippe
  1950-1962: Workers settlement in Le Creusot
  1951-1954: Memorial for Jean Giraudoux, Bellac
  1955-1966: Civic Center in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, including the Paris Prefecture
  Compagnie parisienne d'électricité at 76 rue de Rennes.
  1957 Monument to Victor Hugo, Paris
  1959-1964: Archives de la Seine, Paris, with René Fontaine
  1965: Hilton Hotel, Orly
caption: Renault factories on Seguin island at Boulogne-Billancourt (1944-1951)
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