Prouvé, Jean.

Jean Prouvé : école provisoire Villejuif = Villejuif temporary school / [textes, Catherine Coley ; traduction anglaise, John Tittensor].

Paris : Galerie Patrick Seguin, [2016]
©2016

77 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 25 cm.

Jean Prouvé architecture ; 10

Jean Prouvé began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouvé 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 Prouvé'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.

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Prouvé, Jean.
Modular construction France Villejuif.
School buildings France Villejuif.
Construction modulaire France Villejuif.
Constructions scolaires France Villejuif.
Modular construction
School buildings
France Villejuif
Villejuif (France) Buildings, structures, etc.

Coley, Catherine, author.
Tittensor, John, translator.
Prouvé, Jean architect
Coley, Catherine writer of supplementary textual content
Jean Prouvé architecture ; 10.

École provisoire Villejuif
Villejuif temporary school

Location: Library main 293673
Call No.: BIB 238789
Status: Available