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Jean Prouve Ecole Provisoire Villejuif Temporary School, 1956

Jean Prouve Ecole Provisoire Villejuif Temporary School, 1956

Patrick Seguin
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Jean Prouve began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouve to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame to build easily constructed demountable houses. Few of these groundbreaking structures were built, making them exceedingly rare today--prompting Galerie Patrick Seguin's tireless efforts over the past 27 years to preserve and promote these important designs. The gallery owns the largest collection of Prouve's demountables, 22 in total.
This volume focuses on the Villejuif Temporary School designed in 1957. It is luxuriously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs.
Though lacking any formal education in architecture, Jean Prouve became one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, boldly experimenting with new building designs, materials and methods. -His postwar work has left its mark everywhere, - wrote Le Courbusier, -decisively.-
Pages
80
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Galerie Patrick Seguin
Release
September 27, 2016
ISBN
2909187144
ISBN 13
9782909187143

Jean Prouve Ecole Provisoire Villejuif Temporary School, 1956

Patrick Seguin
0/5 ( ratings)
Jean Prouve began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouve to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame to build easily constructed demountable houses. Few of these groundbreaking structures were built, making them exceedingly rare today--prompting Galerie Patrick Seguin's tireless efforts over the past 27 years to preserve and promote these important designs. The gallery owns the largest collection of Prouve's demountables, 22 in total.
This volume focuses on the Villejuif Temporary School designed in 1957. It is luxuriously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs.
Though lacking any formal education in architecture, Jean Prouve became one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, boldly experimenting with new building designs, materials and methods. -His postwar work has left its mark everywhere, - wrote Le Courbusier, -decisively.-
Pages
80
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Galerie Patrick Seguin
Release
September 27, 2016
ISBN
2909187144
ISBN 13
9782909187143

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