Alphonse Laverrière Explained

Birth Date:16 May 1872
Alphonse Laverrière
Resting Place:Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery

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

He studied at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève and later at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and was professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.[1]

In 1912, he won a gold medal in architecture with Eugène-Edouard Monod in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "Building Plan of a Modern Stadium".[2]

Between 1922 and 1951, Laverrière designed the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery at Lausanne and is buried there.[3]

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  1. Web site: Böcker . Dagmar . Jan 24, 2020 . Alphonse Laverrière . Aug 12, 2024 . Dizionario storico della Svizzera . it.
  2. Web site: Alphonse Laverrière . Aug 12, 2024 . Olympics.com.
  3. Web site: Le cimetière du Bois-de-Vaux . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20191025205332/http://www.lausanne.ch/thematiques/nature-parcs-et-domaines/espaces-verts/cimetieres/le-cimetiere-du-bois-de-vaux.html . Oct 25, 2019 . Mar 3, 2019 . Ville de Lausanne.

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