Title & Author:

Jean Prouvé : the poetics of the technical object / [general editor, Alexander von Vegesack ; editors, Catherine Dumont y'Ayot and Bruno Reichlin ; translators, Brian Currid, David Mason, and Dafydd Rees Roberts].

Publication:

Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, 2005.

Description:

384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Exhibition catalogue with metal covers.
Includes bibliographical references (page 383) and indexes.
Technical thought : Stiff Radar Tower, Ouessant Island / Jean Prouvé -- Technical thought, techniques of thinking / Bruno Reichlin -- Hands that see: The CNAM Lectures (1958-71) / Jean Louis Cohen -- Alphabet of structures / Benedikt Huber -- Jean Prouvé in detail: systems of assembly / Franz Graf -- The neoprene joint / Roberto Grignolo -- Joints and seals -- Notes on the Aluminium Centenary Pavilion / Jürg Conzett -- The asymmetrical 'crutch' of the Evian Pump Room / Catherine Dumont d'Ayot -- Serge Kétoff / Bernard Marrey -- Prouvé versus Mies: Alpexpo / Pean-Pierre Cêtre -- Louis Fruitet / Bernard Marrey -- Tools and production methods : From the workshop to the ateliers / Catherine Coley -- Ironwork / Catherine Coley -- Robert Mallet-Stevens / Olivier Cinqualbre -- Tony Garnier / Dominique Châtelet -- Sheet metal and welding / Jean Prouvé -- Aéro-Club Roland-Garros Buc, 1935-36 -- Maison du peuple, Clichy, 1935-39 -- Marcel Lods / Cuillemette Morel-Journel -- Vladimir Bodiansky / Olivier Cinqualbre -- Stainless steel / Jean Prouvé -- Promoting innovation / Florence Hachez-Leroy -- After Maxéville: from Avenue Kléber to Square Louvois (1954-57) / Michel Bataille -- CIMT / Catherine Coley -- Jean Swetchine / Bernard Marrey -- Prouvé as an engineering consultant and the Blanc-Manteaux Workshop / Laurence Allégret -- 'Factoried' houses, metal, wood, concrete : We need factoried houses / Jean Prouvé -- Prouvé, reconstruction, and the Saarland / Rémi Baudoui -- The use of wood and the BCC House / Christian Sumi -- Pierre Jeanneret / Hélène Bauchet-Cauquil -- André Sive / Olivier Cinqualbre -- Henri Prouvé / Vincent Bradel -- Tropical houses / Christian Enjolras -- African experimentation / Joseph Abram -- Central portal frames -- Bernard Laffaille and the development of the 'Prouvé-Shreds' / Nicolas Nogue -- The Nancy House / Tatsuo Iwaoka -- Shells -- Crutches -- Prouvé's involvement in the Unité d'habitation / Ruggero Tropeano -- Le Corbusier / Guillemette Morel-Journal -- Between 'bottle rack' and metabolism: Prouvé's concrete structures / Markus Peter -- Core constructions -- For industry / Shuichi Matsumura -- Demountable and mobile construction / Adolph Stiller -- An air of mobility / Pierre Lebrun -- Houses like cars? / François Chéry -- Musée des beaux-arts du Havre: Jean Prouvé and LWD / Joseph Abram -- Experimenting with plastics / Philippe Bancilhon -- Jean Prouvé and Berlin's Freie Universität / Peter Cachola Schmal and Ingeborg Flagge -- Other construction systems -- Factoried houses are comfortable houses / Franz Graf -- Furniture and interiors : Jean Prouvé's 'anti-design' / Jan van Geest -- Furniture -- Furniture, design, manufacture, marketing / Catherine Coley -- Charlotte Perriand / Charlotte Benton -- Jean Prouvé, UAM, and the Salon des arts méagers / Jacques Rouaud -- Jean Prouvé: the interiors / Arthur Rüegg -- Reception, legacy and biography : Reception, legacy, biography: the critical reception of Jean Prouvé's work / Guillemette Morel-Journel -- Reception in Japan / Yoshiyuki Yamana -- Junzo Sakakura: exchanges with Jean Prouvé / Yasuto Ota -- A prototypical legacy / Axel Venacque -- The Nancy School / Henri Claude -- Trajectories / Catherine Prouvé.

ISBN:

3931936546 (English edition ; hd. bd.)
9783931936549 (English edition ; hd. bd.)

Subject:

Prouvé, Jean.
Architects France.
Architectural metal-work.
Furniture designers France.
Architectes France.
Travail des métaux (Architecture)
Dessinateurs de meubles France.
Architects.
Furniture designers.
France.

Form/genre:

Distinctive covers.

Added entries:

Vegesack, Alexander von.
Reichlin, Bruno.
Dumont d'Ayot, Catherine.
Vitra Design Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245655
Call No.: BIB 175284
Status: Available