Jean Prouvé: Architecture: 5 Volume Box Set No. 2

Jean Prouvé: Architecture: 5 Volume Box Set No. 2

Jean ProuvÃ© began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned ProuvÃ© 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 Seguinâ€™s tireless efforts over the past 27 years to preserve and promote these important designs. The gallery owns the largest collection of ProuvÃ©â€™s demountables, 22 in total.

The second in Galerie Patrick Seguinâ€™s series of boxed sets on ProuvÃ©â€™s demountable architecture, Jean ProuvÃ© Architecture: 5 Volume Box Set No. 2 compiles five further volumes of research on these structures: monographs on the Metropole Demountable House, the 6 x 6 Demountable House (adapted by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), the Villejuif Temporary School, the 4 x 4 Military Shelter and the Les Jours Meilleurs Demountable House. Each monograph (available individually or as part of this limited-edition box set) focuses on a single building, and is luxuriously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs.

Though lacking any formal education in architecture, Jean ProuvÃ© (1901â€“84) became one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, boldly experimenting with new building designs, materials and methods. â€œHis postwar work has left its mark everywhere,â€ wrote Le Courbusier, â€œdecisively.â€
Country USA
Brand Ingramcontent
Manufacturer Galerie Patrick Seguin
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-09-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9782909187198

Country	USA
Brand	Ingramcontent
Manufacturer	Galerie Patrick Seguin
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-09-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9782909187198

Jean Prouvé: Architecture: 5 Volume Box Set No. 2

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