Louis de Soissons belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Louis de Soissons as British-Canadian architect.
Louis de Soissons was born at Montreal in 1890. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Royal Academy of Arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and urban planner.
His best-known building is Welwyn Garden City. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
That the work was built in United Kingdom shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Louis de Soissons died in 1962, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Welwyn Garden City
- Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Trained at Royal Academy of Arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris
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