Édouard Utudjian

Édouard Utudjian (էդուարդ Մկրտչի Ութուճյան; November 12, 1905–July 28, 1975 ) was a French-Armenian architect and creator of the concept "underground urbanism" in the 1930s.

biography
He was born on November 12, 1905, in Constantinople and graduated from the University of Paris. In 1937, Utudjian had founded the International Permanent Committee of Underground Technologies and Planning to promote the usage of underground space. He was the author of the books Architecture et urbanisme souterrain (1966) and L'urbanisme souterrain.