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Alphonse Laverrière

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Olympic medal record
Art competitions
Gold medal – first place 1912 Stockholm Town planning

Alphonse Laverrière (16 May 1872 – 11 March 1954) was a Swiss architect.

He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and was professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

In 1912, he won a gold medal together with Eugène-Edouard Monod in the art competitions of the Olympic Games. They created a "Building plan of a modern stadium".

Between 1922 and 1951, Laverrière designed the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery at Lausanne and is buried there.[1]

Works

References

  1. ^ Le cimetière du Bois-de-Vaux (in French) at lausanne.ch, accessed 3 March 2019