Charles-Gustave Stoskopf

Charles-Gustave Stoskopf (1907-2004) was an award-winning French architect. He designed buildings in Strasbourg, Colmar and Créteil. He won the second Prix de Rome in architecture in 1933.

Charles-Gustave Stoskopf
Born(1907-09-02)September 2, 1907
Strasbourg, France
DiedJanuary 22, 2004(2004-01-22) (aged 96)
Paris, France
Alma materÉcole régionale d'architecture de Strasbourg
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
OccupationArchitect
Parent(s)Gustave Stoskopf

Early life

Charles-Gustave Stoskopf was born in Strasbourg on 2 September 1907.[1][2] His father, Gustave Stoskopf,[2] was a polymath: poet, painter, playwright and publisher.[3]

Stoskopf studied architecture at the École régionale d'architecture de Strasbourg in Strasbourg.[2] He graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where his professors included Emmanuel Pontremoli and Jacques Debat-Ponsan.[2]

Career

Stoskopf won the second Prix de Rome in architecture in 1933.[4]

In the aftermath of World War II, Stoskopf began designing new buildings demolished by the war in the villages of Alsace,[5] especially near Colmar, and in the Territoire de Belfort.[2] He redesigned the Place de l'Homme-de-Fer in Strasbourg from 1952 to 1956.[2] Meanwhile, from 1954 to 1970, he designed housing estates like Colmar's ZUP, Créteil's Mont-Mesly,[6] or Strasbourg's Canardière, Esplanade and Quai des Belges.[2] He also designed churches, like the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Créteil in 1976.[7]

Stoskopf authored a novel in 1998.[2]

Death

Stoskopf died in Paris on 22 January 2004.[1][8]

Works
  • Stoskopf, Charles-Gustave (1998). Monsieur de Castel-Mandailles en mission spéciale en Alsace. Strasbourg: Oberlin. ISBN 9782853691789. OCLC 468397663.

References
  1. "Fonds Stoskopf, Gustave (1907-2004). 127 Ifa". archiwebture.citechaillot.fr. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  2. Bolle, Gauthier (2015). "Un acteur de la scène professionnelle des Trente Glorieuses, de la Reconstruction aux grands ensembles : l'architecte alsacien Charles-Gustave Stoskopf (1907-2004)". Revue d'Alsace. 141 (141): 409–420. doi:10.4000/alsace.2384. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  3. Stoskopf, Nicolas. "Gustave STOSKOPF (1869-1944)". cerclesaintleonard.com. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  4. Bolle, Gauthier (2016). "Reconstruire les paysages urbains et ruraux d'Alsace après 1945". Revue d'Alsace. 142 (142): 117–138. doi:10.4000/alsace.2412. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  5. Rieger, Théodore (2002). L'Alsace. Paris: Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot. pp. 48–49. ISBN 9782877476799.
  6. Landauer, Paul (2008). "La SCIC, premier promoteur français des grands ensembles (1953-1958)". Histoire urbaine. 3 (23): 71–80. doi:10.3917/rhu.023.0071 – via Cairn.info.
  7. Evin, Florence; Forgue, Pauline; Larrochelle, Jean-Jacques (September 18, 2015). "Un week-end pour visiter le patrimoine d'hier et de demain". Le Monde. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  8. "Notice de personne". Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2 January 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
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