Eugene Squélard

Pierre Vago (1910-2002), chief architect of the reconstruction of Arles, integrated it into the Atelier d'Architecture of Arles that he had created in order to streamline and optimize the reconstruction of the city. In his Memoirs (An Intense Life), Pierre Vago presents Eugène Squélard as an already old and tired Belgian, who had settled in Provence for health reasons, a good man and, of public knowledge, an honest man, but without scale and without ambition». He specifies that, within the Atelier d'Architecture of Arles, Squélard was responsible for all administrative and financial matters ». Eugène Squélard participated in the Reconstruction of Arles as an architect of operation alone (Downtown, islet 67) or in association with Léon Hoa (born 1912): Trinquetaille, islets 1 and 3; downtown, islets 26 and 27. 

Eugène Squélard also assisted Pierre Vago in other operations: development of Beaucaire’s development plan (1947-1963) and construction of low-income housing in the suburb of Trinquetaille (Arles, 1955).