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Article: Jacques Greber, Urbaniste et Architecte.
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- Urban History Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Jacques Greber (1882-1962) was born into an artistic family in Paris, and admitted in architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1901. [1] He was a fine student, winning several prizes during the arduous training at the Ecole. On his graduation in 1909, he missed the Rome Prize for architecture, which changed the direction of his career. Instead of spending years in Rome studying classical architecture, he left for the United States, where American architects who had trained at the Ecole immediately engaged his talents to design jardins a la francaise for the large houses they built in New England.
Greber quickly developed a reputation as a landscape architect ...