(b Paris, 25 Feb 1874; d July 1959). French urban planner, architect and teacher. He studied in Paris at the Ecole Sp?ciale d'Architecture and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he trained in the studio of Marcel Lambert (b 1863), who was noted for his surveys of the Acropolis in Athens. In 1902 Prost won the Prix de Rome with his plan for a national printing office, in which he first explored ways of incorporating industry into aesthetically sensitive areas. At the Acad?mie de France in Rome, many of Prost's fellow students were preoccupied with questions of urban planning. They included Tony Garnier, who was working on both a reconstruction of the ancient city of Tusculum, near Frascati, and an early version of his celebrated Cit? Industrielle scheme. In a similar vein Prost examined Constantinople (now Istanbul) and particularly the church of Hagia Sophia. After carefully studying and analysing the latter, he devised a detailed scheme of repair and reconstruction that earned him the medal of honour at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais in 1912.

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