Jean-Charles Moreux was born in Mont-Saint-Vincent (Saône-et-Loire) in 1889 and died in Paris in 1956. He was an architect, landscape designer and decorator. After graduating in civil engineering from the École spéciale des travaux publics, Moreux entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris in 1910, in the Pascal-Recoura workshop, and at the same time studied at the École des chartes and the École du Louvre. Acquiring a wide-ranging culture, combined with a passion for nature, he had the profile of an enlightened 18th-century amateur, and was always uncomfortable with the constraints of 20th-century architecture. He rejected the agency concept, wishing to control his work from start to finish. After the Great War, his friendship with André Lurçat led him to join the architectural avant-garde led by Le Corbusier. However, from 1928 onwards, lamenting the formal poverty of this avant-garde and the lack of political will on the part of the State in the field of housing, Moreux returned to the classical tradition, both Italian and French. He asserted the birth of a modern neo-classical school, which he applied mainly to private commissions, including Bernard Reichenbach’s mansion in Paris (1929-1932) and Jacques Demachy’s house near Chambourcy (1935-1937). His gardens are a logical extension of his architectural work, and reflect his taste for the classical French garden (Square René-Le-Gall, Paris 13th, 1935). In 1947-1948, he designed the gardens for Shepheard’s Hotel, rue des Bains, Cairo, Egypt. Source CENTRE D’ARCHIVES D’ARCHITECTURE CONTEMPORAINE Archiwebture