title: Camille Gardelle
text: # Camille Gardelle
  
  Camille Remy Alexandre Gardelle (Montauban, 31 July 1866 - 1947) was a French architect.
  
  Gardelle graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts. An exponent of Eclecticism, he built a notable work in Montevideo, Uruguay:
  
  * Palacio Pietracaprina, 1913, currently the Embassy of Brazil
  * refurbishing of Castillo Soneira, 1914 (original by Víctor Rabú)
  * Palacio Piria, originally a residence for Francisco Piria, nowadays headquarters of the Supreme Court of Uruguay
  * Palacio Jackson, later known as Palacio Brasil
  * Electoral Court
  
  ## Literature
  
  * Lucchini, Aurelio (1969). Ideas y formas en la arquitectura nacional. Colección Nuestra Tierra (in Spanish). Vol. 6. Montevideo.
  * Lucchini, Aurelio (1986). El Concepto de Arquitectura y su traducción a formas en el territorio que hoy pertenece a Uruguay (in Spanish). Montevideo: Universidad de la República.
  