- Birthday
- 1930-04-08
- Deathday
- 2009-04-30
- Place of Birth
- Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Jean-Jacques Deluz
ActingBiography
Jean-Jacques Deluz (1930-2009), is a Swiss architect and urban planner, settled in Algiers in 1956. He lived and worked there until his death in April 2009 when he will be buried there. Through his work – his constructions, his writings and his teaching – he is one of the most important figures of modern Algerian architecture. "I was born in Lausanne in 1930, on April 8, under the sign of Aries. Arrived into the world with jaundice, I scared my mother; then I was a pretty, unbearable little boy. In college, I walked on my hands and did somersaults; at the gymnasium, I discovered the symbolist...
