La Rochelle : Pierre-Loti school group
Charente-MaritimeReference
PA17000050
Latitude
46.16327
Longitude
-1.175581
Address
22 Avenue Pierre Loti 17000 La Rochelle
Construction era
2e quart 20e siècle;3e quart 20e siècle
Protection date
2002/02/12 : inscrit MH
Protection cause
Tous les bâtiments (y compris le blockhaus) constituant le groupe scolaire, en totalité (cad. AT 6) : inscription par arrêté du 12 février 2002
Description
Designed in 1929, developed in 1936 and built between 1938 and 1953, with several interruptions due to war, this establishment, carried out by Pierre Grizet, now includes a primary school, a nursery school, associative and services spaces, as well as four dwellings for staff. He also has a work by the painter Gaston Balande dating from 1940. This building presents an architecture similar to that of the Paul Doumer school group, designed by Grizet in 1934 (PA000049), who said: "Paul Doumer is my initial project, Pierre Loti, my masterpiece". There is an organization in low pavilions, not exceeding one or two floors, and a characteristic style of the modernity of the 1930s. The principles of simplification of the forms and rejection of the decoration, specific to the modern movement, are applied there, while being softened by a rich and thick modeling including cornices, strips and frames.
