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Debat-Ponsan, Jacques
(b Copenhagen, 1882; d Paris, 1942). French architect. He was a student of Victor Laloux at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where he was awarded the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1912. He produced several buildings for the postal administration in France as well as an educational complex, Groupe Scolaire J.-B. Clément (1932) in Boulogne-Billancourt, which relies on a straightforward expression of the reinforced-concrete frame and the use of large expanses of windows. Together with Tony Garnier, whom he assisted in the construction of the Hôtel de Ville (1931–4) at Boulogne-Billancourt, and François Le Coeur, Debat-Ponsan was one of the best proponents of a style stressing functionalism as opposed to historicism in public commissions, which stemmed from progressive circles at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at the turn of the century.
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