All over France, thousands of children studied in schools he built, and just as many people still live today in buildings he designed. The architect Jacques Soucheyre, who grew up in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), died Monday, May 15 at the age of 62, following a cancer he had been fighting for two years.
His funeral will take place Monday, May 20, at 11 am, at the cemetery of Joncherolles, in Villetaneuse.
Winner in 1998 of the architecture prize list for the Paul-Guiraud hospital in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), he had notably designed the colleges Iqbal-Masih in Saint-Denis and Lucie-Aubrac in Villetaneuse, in the 93. But also many apartment buildings, especially in the city center of these two municipalities, or a student residence in Romainville.
An architecture "aesthetic but above all very pleasant to live", greets the deputy Stéphane Peu
Jacques Soucheyre still lived in downtown Saint-Denis. "He was one of those rare architects to live in one of his achievements," said MP (PCF) Stéphane Peu in a statement, which he published to pay tribute to the one who was one of "[his] best friends".
"He is someone who made it a point of honor that his architecture is aesthetic but above all very pleasant to live, continues the deputy reached by phone on Tuesday. For example, he was keen that the common areas were always lit by day, which is increasingly rare and a strong constraint, but that he gave himself. He also fought a lot against the financial constraints that led to build housing smaller and smaller or leaving little room for imagination... Today everyone recognizes the quality of their buildings. »
Comes from a working-class family
In Saint-Denis, this fellow traveler of the PCF, from a working-class family, had also designed in 2011 the plant powered by 100% wood, which allowed the ecological conversion of the city's district heating network.
His father, Maurice Soucheyre, who died in 2006, had also long been first deputy mayor PCF in Saint-Denis, regional councillor and general councillor. He founded the music festival in the basilica of Saint-Denis in 1968.
