Jacques-Marcel Auburtin

Born in Paris to the architect Alexandre Émile Auburtin, Jacques-Marcel Auburtin graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1896. He worked on a number of municipal buildings in Paris, including La nouvelle Sorbonne (with Henri-Paul Nénot, 1896–1899), Colisee Gaumont (1912), and the Salle Pleyel (with André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon, 1927). Auburtin was a founding member of the Société française des urbanistes and theorized how to rebuild France after World War I in a novel 1915 treatise that proposed indoor plumbing and sewage, electricity, and other innovations. His brother, Jean-Francis Auburtin (1866–1930), was a landscape painter.