Clamart Cemetery
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Clamart Cemetery
Going out from Paris by the national road 118, in direction of Orleans and Chartres, after Porte de Sevres and the Seine with to the right the artificial shape of ile Seguin, we enter in one those recurring places of the first periphery of Paris with urban characters consisting of fragments of traditional village and the housing and offices “international style” areas. Sevres, Bellevue, Meudon are the villages that we cross this pleasant hilly landscape. After the forest of Meudon we arrive into a place well-know as the plain (plane). It is a territory divided between three municipalities: Meudon, Clamart, Velizy-Villacoublay that until the 40’s was open countryside, at the edge of Paris agglomeration.
"The cimetière paysager of Clamart, conceived and designed by Auzelle starting from 1946, represents a work of great interest from the point of view of landscape and urbanism"
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Robert Auzelle
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. Paris
France
Robert Auzelle is one of the most important architects and planners after the second world war. A central figure for his role as intellectual, professor, designer and high official.
Born in Coulommiers in 1913, in 1931 he is accepted at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA). In 1936 he entered Instuitut d'Urbanisme de l'Universitè de Paris (IUUP), where he graduated in 1942.
His activities were manifold: urban studies and theoretical reflections, editing of the Encyclopedie de l’urbanisme (with I.Jankovic);teaching at Paris university (Institute d’urbanisme de l’université de Paris) and the ENSBA (Ecole nationale supérieure de beaux arts); jobs for MRU (Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l’Urbanisme); important plans and projects in France and Portugal.
In Italy, in the 60’s, Auzelle worked with Giovanni Astengo on the revision of the master plan of Genoa.
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