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Carlu, Jacques
(b Bonnières-sur-Seine, 7 April 1890; d Paris, 3 Dec 1976). French architect. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then spent some time in Bucharest. In 1913 he began his unusual transatlantic career when he went to Canada to work for the planner Thomas Hayton Mawson on various projects in Calgary and Ottawa; he also worked in the office of Henry Hornbostel (1867–1961) in Pittsburgh (1914). After returning to France, he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome (1919) as a student of Victor Laloux; while still completing his unorthodox fourth-year submission—reconstructions of the Capitoline Hill, Rome, during the Etruscan period, which were brightly coloured in a manner reminiscent of Art Deco—Carlu was appointed as the first director of the Ecole d’Art Américaine en France, Fontainebleau, which he headed until 1937.
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