André Gutton

André Gutton (1904 -?) was a French architect.

He became employed by the French government in 1927 as a town planner, and was successively chief architect of civil buildings and palaces in 1936. He served as chief architect of the Institute of France from 1943–1969 and after the World War II he was employed in Aleppo, Syria in which he redesigned part of the city and in 1952 had a number of roads widened to allow easier passage for modern traffic. He was also chief architect of the Paris Opera (1950–1954) and also a Professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (1949–1958) and the Institute of Urban Planning at the University of Paris (1944).

References

• Archives nationales (French)