Laurent Chappis (8 May 1915 – 28 December 2013) was a French architect and town planner.
[1] He created the French ski resort of Courchevel located in the Trois Vallées and in doing so practically wrote the rule book on how to design a ski resort.
Chappis was a keen ski tourer exploring the mountains around Grenoble in the 1930s before joining the army and serving in the early stages of World War II.
A decorated war hero he was captured in an attack on a German position in the final days before the French surrender and served five years in a PoW camp in Austria.
He completed his doctorate in captivity, the subject was the development of a ski resort in the Trois Vallées area.