Alfred Agache practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Alfred Agache as French architect and urbanist (1875–1959).
Alfred Agache was born at Tours in 1875. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, esperantist and urban planner.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the order of Nichan Iftikhar, Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross and officier d'académie.
That the work was built in France shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alfred Agache died in 1959, aged 84. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Officer of the order of Nichan Iftikhar
- Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris
