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Georges Candilis was born on 29 March, 1913 in Baku Russian Empire, is a Georges Candilis was architect and urbanist architect and urbanist. Discover Georges Candilis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?
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29 March 1913 |
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29 March |
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Baku Russian Empire |
| Date of death |
10 May, 1995 |
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Paris, France |
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Russia
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Georges Candilis Height, Weight & Measurements
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Georges Candilis Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Georges Candilis worth at the age of 82 years old? Georges Candilis’s income source is mostly from being a successful Architect. He is from Russia. We have estimated Georges Candilis's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Georges Candilis (Γεώργιος Κανδύλης; 29 March 1913 – 10 May 1995) was a Greek-French architect and urbanist.
Born in Azerbaijan, he moved to Greece and graduated from the Polytechnic School of Athens between 1931 and 1936.
In 1933 he met Le Corbusier during his studies, at CIAM IV, as a result he is assigned the direction of ASCORAL in 1943.
In 1945, he moved to France in along with many other Greek intellectuals on the Mataroa voyage.
There he worked for André Lurçat and Le Corbusier in their office, and was involved in the construction of the Unité d'Habitation de Marseille.
Together with Shadrach Woods and Henri Piot, he was engaged in the search for solutions in the problem of the rapidly urbanizing science of Islamic countries, combining low-cost construction and the use of traditional architectural elements.
They developed cross-ventilated buildings with courtyards, in Oran, Algeria and Casablanca.
In 1951, together with Shadrach Woods and engineer Henri Piot they became the leaders of ATBAT-Africa, in Tangier, Morocco, a workshop conceived as a research center, where architects engineers and technicians worked in an interdisciplinary way, closed in 1952 due to the political tension of the time.
In 1954, he returned to Paris and opened his own office, together with engineers Pablo Dony and Piot, and architects Alexis Josic and Woods.
The office was aimed at reducing the costs of building three-bedroom apartments.
In 1955 he founded a firm together with Woods and Josic.
The office had important projects such as the extension of Bagnols-sur-Cèze (1956) and the expansion design of the city of Le Mirail (1961) and Toulouse (1970).
He remained in teaching until after the student riots of May 1968 and was a guest lecturer at several schools of architecture in France and abroad.
The partnership was dissolved in 1969, from which time he continued to work as an architect and urban planner, undertaking projects in tourist-centric regions and in the Middle East ranging from housing to schools and vacation homes.
In 1977 he published Batir la Vie.
He died in Paris on May 10, 1995.
Candilis gained notoriety from a number of developments he designed with Alexis Josic and Shadrach Woods, including Le Mirail, Toulouse and Carriere Centrale in Casablanca.
Candilis was also a founding member of Team 10.
