Michel Marot

Place: Troyes

Born: 1926

Death: 2021

Biography:

Michel Marot was a French architect. He was born on January 29, 1926, in Troyes, France, and died on August 24, 2021, at the age of 95. Marot was admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1945 and graduated in 1950. He then studied at Harvard University and earned the Prix de Rome to study at the Villa Medici from January 1955 to April 1958. In 1963, Marot won the Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent for his design of the Église Sainte-Agnès de Fontaine-les-Grès. He was made responsible for overseeing the structural integrity of the Arc de Triomphe and the Archives Nationales. In 1970, he designed his most famous project, the Villa Arson in Nice. In 1965, he became a professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and later became President of the Société française des architectes. In 2010, the Église Sainte-Agnès de Fontaine-les-Grès was declared a historic monument.