Gréber, Jacques 1882-1962, Paris, United States, and Ottawa

• French landscape architect and urban planner
• Diploma from École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1909 (same year as Cormier)
• Designed gardens in Newport RI for mansions by leading American architects
• authored book "Architecture of the United States", Paris, 1920, (see Beaux-Arts Quotes)
• admired Edward Bennett's Ottawa Plan in 1920, (16 years before he met Mackenzie-King)
• Benjamin Franklin (Fairmont) Parkway, Philadelphia 1916-20 (with Paul Cret, distinguished 1903 graduate of Ecole des Beaux-Arts and professor of architecture at Pennsylvania State U)
• Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, 1926-1929, neoclassical, (with Paul Cret)
• town plans, Marseille, Lyon
• postwar rebuilding of Abbeville, St-Omer, Rouen, Lille, Calais
• American war cemeteries in France (with Pope, Cram, Ferguson)
• Professor of Town Planning, University of Paris
• Met Mackenzie-King as architect in chief of 1937 Paris Exposition
• designed Confederation Square on Beaux-Arts principles 1937-1939
• proposed enlarged Union Station and National (visual) Arts Centre on Confederation Square
• consultant to National Capital Plan1945-1950
• biographical paper by Prof. Nancy Pollock-Ellwand, Landscape Journal 20-1-pp48-61, 2001
• Hon. FRAIC, MEIC, MIPTP, Hon. SLATP, SADG, SC, SFU