Ernest Hébrard

At the Academie, he was a few years behind Henri Prost, later famed as the planner of Casablanca, and together with other members of the reformist Musée social,[1] he developed an interest in the possibilities of town planning.

During WW1, in 1916, Hebrard had been conscripted as the Director of the Archaeological Service of the Army of the Orient based in Thessaloniki,[1] and so was present when the majority of the city was largely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1917.

Hébrard taught at the National Technical University of Athens, and his work is well known in the architecture schools of Greece.

He also designed a number of prominent buildings, including the eclectically styled Martyr's Church, popularly known as the Cửa Bắc Church, in central Hanoi in the late 1920s (completed c1931[5]), but he is particularly noted for a series of government buildings that worked to incorporate elements of vernacular design from French Indochina into modern structures.

[6] They include : In 1930, he presented a project for the building of a university in Salonika,[11] and in 1931 he returned to Paris, where he died at the age of 58 two years later.