Pedro Benoit
Pedro Benoit was an Argentine architect, engineer, and urbanist best known for designing the layout of the city of La Plata.
Pedro Benoit was born in Buenos Aires in 1836 to Mara Josefa de las Mercedes Leyes and Pierre Benoit, a French migr who had left his homeland following the Bourbon Restoration. His father, a trained architect, engineer and topographer instilled his interests in his son, who enrolled in 1850 at the Topography and Geodesics School of the Department of Engineering of the Province of Buenos Aires.
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