Architect for better days / Jean Prouvé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prouvé, Jean, architect.

Contributor:

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Fondation LUMA.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prouvé, Jean.

France.

Prouvé, Jean--Catalogs.

Architecture--France--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Architecture.

History.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Phaidon Press ; [Zurich, Switzerland] : LUMA Foundation, 2017.

Summary:

This book, which accompanies a major retrospective at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, focuses on twelve prefabricated houses designed by Prouve, each of which has been specially rebuilt for the exhibition. Originally trained as a metal worker, Jean Prouve regarded himself as an engineer and constructor rather than a designer or architect. Among his broad output, which ranges from lighting to furniture, exhibition structures to shelving, his modular buildings are particularly intriguing. Essays setting his work in context are accompanied by archival and contemporary images, drawings, and handwritten notes, together with a portfolio of images of the twelve houses as installed in Arles.Jean Prouve was a French metal worker, self-taught architect, and designer, now regarded as one of the most influential designers of the early modernist movement. Among his achievements, he is revered for using technology previously limited to industrial manufacturing within his elegant architecture.

Notes:

Coinciding with a major survey exhibition dedicated to humanist Jean Prouvé's constructions at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, 21 October 2017-1 May 2018--Back cover and exhibition webpage.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9780714875552

0714875554

OCLC:

987281772