Charles-Gustave Stoskopf
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Charles-Gustave Stoskopf | |
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| Born | 2 September 1907 |
| Died | 22 January 2004 (aged 96) |
| Alma mater | École régionale d'architecture de Strasbourg École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Parent | Gustave Stoskopf |
Charles-Gustave Stoskopf (2 September 1907 – 22 January 2004) was a French architect. He designed buildings in Strasbourg, Colmar and Créteil. He won the second Prix de Rome in architecture in 1933.
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]
