Ludwik Peretz

Ludwik Janusz Peretz (9 January 1923 – 1 December 2022) was a Polish-born French architect.

Biography

Peretz began his university studies at the Warsaw University of Technology and served in the Home Army. He was a prisoner of war from 1944 to 1945. After World War II, he emigrated to France and became a student of , , and at the , from where he graduated in 1955. In 1966, he became a naturalized French citizen. He worked as an architect in Roubaix and Lille, primarily working on construction of churches.

Peretz died in Villeneuve-d'Ascq on 1 December 2022, at the age of 99.

Main constructions

• École des beaux-arts (Lille, 1959–1964)
• Église du Saint-Curé-d'Ars (Lille, 1960)
• Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, 1963)
• Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité (Armentières, 1964)
• Chapelle Saint-Pierre (Lomme, 1964)
• Église Saint-Joseph (Grande-Synthe, 1965)
• Chapelle Saint-Paul (Saint-André-lez-Lille, 1965)
• Église Sainte-Bernadette (Rosendaël, 1966)
• Maison Monniez (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, 1972)
• Maison Derville (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, 1973)
• Immeuble (Lille, 1975)
• Maison Camus (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, 1976)
• Maison Wallez (Mouvaux, 1979)
• Chapelle dite Centre Romero (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, 1980)

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