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Wells Coates modernist co founder of mars group

Wells Coates

Wells Wintemute Coates OBE 1895 – 1958, founder of the British branch of CIAM together with Maxwell Fry called the Modern Architectural Research Group aka MARS

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French architect, Albert Laprade’s Villa Magdale

French architect, Albert Laprade’s Villa Magdalena (1926-8) in Bénodet, Brittany was built for Professor Maurice Heitz-Boyer, a surgeon and named for his wife.

The story of the project is quite unexpected, Heitz-Boyer was a famed urologist and was requested to care for the Pasha of Marrakesh. By way of thanking him for his services, the Pasha wanted to build the surgeon a home. Step forward Laprade who was already known to the Pasha and the surgeon. Today the beautiful house is Hôtel le Minare.

Laprade was always destined to become an architect it was a family thing. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. Called up in 1914, he was wounded at Ypres a year later. A family member stepped in and instead of being patched up and returned to the battle field, he organised for Albert to instead go to Casablanca to work on the planning of the city, he returned to France in 1920.

Laprade was a founding member of the Society of Modern Artists (1925) and of the International Union of Architects. Amongst his many projects was the French Embassy in Ankara together with Léon Bazin.

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Just so you know where you are … back in the day

Just so you know where you are … back in the day

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon, Portugal. This

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon, Portugal. This magnificent brutalist building houses the private collection of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, an Armenian oil magnate who lived in Lisbon towards the end of his life. Designed by three Portuguese architects, Ruy Jervis d’Athouguia, Pedro Cid, and Alberto Pessoa, completed in 1969, it beautifully reflects their intention to create a harmonious relationship between architecture, art, and nature. Video Greyscape.com

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