Jean Prouvé École Provisoire Villejuif Temporary School, 1956

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 today--prompting Galerie Patrick...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2909187144
• ISBN13: 9782909187143
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Galerie Patrick Seguin
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 9.7"