Jean Prouve 5 Volume Box Set. 678910 by Other Jean Prouve
Brand: Galerie Patrick Seguin
Product Description
Jean Prouv began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war the French government commissioned Prouv 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 todayprompting Galerie Patrick Seguins tireless efforts over the past 27 years to preserve and promote these important designs. The gallery owns the largest collection of Prouvs demountables 22 in total. The second in Galerie Patrick Seguins series of boxed sets on Prouvs demountable architecture Jean Prouv 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 limitededition box set focuses on a single building and is luxuriously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs. Though lacking any formal education in architecture Jean Prouv 190184 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. show more
Condition : New
Author : Other Jean Prouve
Weight : 3940
Publisher : Galerie Patrick Seguin
Language : English
EAN : 9782909187198
ISBN10 : 2909187195
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20160927
Place of Publication : France
Pagination : 400 Pages
Dimensions : 217 X 254 X 73