* 1910 in Budapest
† 2002 in Noisy-sur-École
- studied at the École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris, including under Henry Prost and Auguste Perret; Diploma 1932
- 1930–1975 employee at, later editor-in-chief of, the magazine “L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui”
- from 1940 architect in Marseille; later active in the Resistance
- from 1946 chief architect for the reconstruction of the Arles region: urban planning, housing development, social housing, schools and churches; construction work in Algeria and Tunisia
- 1948 Founder, later Secretary General, of the “Union Internationale des Architectes” (UIA)
- 1957 Lourdes Underground Basilica (25,000 seats)
- 1957–1960 Bonn University Library (with Fritz Bornemann)