Photo: Consul General of Brazil, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons¹⁵

Alfred Agache

French architect and urbanist (1875–1959)

Hubert Donat Alfred Agache (24 February 1875 – 4 May 1959) was a French architect and urbanist known for his work in Brazil.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Alfred Agache (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Feb 24, 1875, died May 4, 1959.¹

About

Agache was born in Tours to Auguste and Catherine Agache. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Victor Laloux.

He formally planned the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Porto Alegre and Curitiba in the 1940s and 1950s, supported by the Estado Novo regime in Brazil. And in Porto Alegre his plans for the Redenção Park were realised to host the Farroupilha Revolution centennial fair. While his plans were often too expensive to be completed, they formed the basis of more practical plans, and the affordable parts of his plan were followed for several decades, although in Curitiba the so-called Agache Plan was retired and then superseded by later urban planning efforts beginning in the 1960s.

Agache submitted designs for Canberra in the Federal Capital City design competition, and placed third.

Agache also co-founded the French Society for Urban Studies. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1935 and died in 1959.

From Wikipedia’s article on Alfred Agache, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Établissements KuhlmannChair¹⁴

Early life and education

Date not recordedBeaux-Arts de Paris^{3 4}

Career

Occupation: architect, Esperantist, urban planner.⁷

Date not recordedFounded Société française des urbanistes⁵
Date not recordedChair, Établissements Kuhlmann⁶

Personal life

BornFeb 24, 1875, Tours^{8 9}
DiedMay 4, 1959, Paris¹⁰
CitizenshipFrance^{9 11}

Awards

1925Knight of the Legion of Honour¹²
1912officier d'académie^{12 13}
Date not recordedCommander of the Order of the Southern Cross¹²
Date not recordedOfficer of the order of Nichan Iftikhar^{12 13}

Sources

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WikidataAlfred Agache on Wikidata
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WikipediaAlfred Agache on Wikipedia
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WikidataAlfred Agache: education, on Wikidata
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Wikidataeducation, as reported
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WikidataAlfred Agache: Founded Société française des urbanistes, on Wikidata
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WikidataAlfred Agache: Chair, Établissements Kuhlmann, on Wikidata
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WikidataAlfred Agache: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataAlfred Agache: place of birth, on Wikidata
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Wikidataplace of birth, as reported by Léonore database
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WikidataAlfred Agache: place of death, on Wikidata
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WikidataAlfred Agache: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataAlfred Agache: award, on Wikidata
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Wikidataaward, as reported by Léonore database
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WikidataÉtablissements Kuhlmann, Chair
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Wikimedia CommonsAlfred Agache photo by Consul General of Brazil, Public domain