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• Title:Architect for better days / Jean Prouvé.
  
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• Variant Title:Jean Prouvé, architect for better days
  
• Author/Creator:Prouvé, Jean, architect.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Hancock, Caroline, translator.
  Tittensor, John, 1941- translator.
  Fondation LUMA.
  
• Published/Created:London : Phaidon Press ; [Zurich, Switzerland] : LUMA Foundation, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA1053.P72 A4 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Prouvé, Jean--Catalogs.
  Architecture--France--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
  
• 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.
  
• ISBN:9780714875552
  0714875554
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Contemporary Images I
  Jean Prouve: A Humanist Vision / Philippe Tretiack
  Eleven Architecture Projects 1939
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  4x4 Military Shelter
  BCC Demountable House
  6x6 and 6x9 Demountable Houses
  8x8 Demountable House
  Ferembal House
  Ateliers Jean Prouve Design Office, Maxeville
  Metropole House
  Bouqueval School
  Les Jours Meilleurs House
  Villejuif Temporary School
  Total Filling Station
  Low-Flying Architecture of Jean Prouve
  Mark Wigley
  Contemporary Images II.