Jacques Debat-Ponsan
Jacques Harold Edouard Debat-Ponsan was a French architect.
Life
Debat-Ponsan studied in the atelier of Victor Laloux at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took the Prix de Rome in 1912 and was resident at the Villa Medici from January 1913 to February 1915.Following the First World War, Debat-Ponsan was engaged in reconstruction projects, then in 1928 was named architect-in-chief of the French national Postes, télégraphes et téléphones administration.
Debat-Ponsan was the son of French painter Édouard Debat-Ponsan, and the uncle of French Prime Minister Michel Debré.
Work
- Paris telephone central office for exchange "Ségur", 55 Avenue de Saxe
- urban planning and reconstruction of Cambrai, with fellow architects Pierre Leprince-Ringuet and Marc Germain Debré
- reconstruction of Driencourt
- PTT Administration Building, 20 Avenue de Segur
- Paris telephone central office for exchange "Suffren", Avenue de Suffren
- École Jean-Baptiste Clément, Boulogne-Billancourt Unité de formation et de recherche biomédicale des Saints-Pères at Paris Descartes University, with Louis Madeline and Armand Guéritte
- Villa Douce, Reims, with Pol Gosset
- Hôtel de Ville, Boulogne-Billancourt