Eugène-Édouard Monod was a Swiss architect who worked together with Alphonse Laverrière until 1915. Together they won the 1912 Olympic architecture gold medal with their work Building Plan of a Modern Stadium. They had already participated in an IOC-sponsored architectural competition in Paris in 1911 and won the first prize with a respective design. The “Terrain of a Modern Olympia” was planned for the Bay of Boiron, west of Monod’s birthplace Morges on Lake Geneva. The project consisted of two parts: one for field sports and one for water sports. The former included a stadium, a football field and tennis courts, the latter swimming pools, a marina and a regatta course. The entire complex was complemented by a road of glory. Laverrière and Monod became friends with Pierre de Coubertin and followers of the Olympic Movement. They developed a theory for mutual inspiration of art and sport. The stadium was intended not only as the venue for sporting events, but also a stage for artistic and aesthetic performances. Over the next few years, they developed a second Olympic project for Vidy, a district of Lausanne.
Since 1895, Monod was educated and graduated from the École des-Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked as an architect in Morges, Lausanne and Beaulieu and near Rolle and was associated with Laverrière from 1901-15, with whom he designed the famous Chauderon Bridge in Lausanne, the Lausanne Railway Station, the Federal Bank and the Reformation Wall Monument in Geneva. The postwar crisis after World War I did not allow him to carry out this business anymore. Monod was then commissioner-general of the Olympic Congresses in Lausanne in 1913 and 1921. He was a member of the Vaud Society of Engineers and Architects and the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects both since 1911.
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