CONTENTS
Preface 16
Alexander Van Vegesack
Ingeborg Flagge
Foreword 18
Richi Miyake,
Toshio Yamanashi
Introduction 20
Bruno Reichlin
Technical thought
Stiff Radar Tower, Ouessant Island
Jean Prouvé 26
Technical thought, techniques of thinking
Bruno Reichlin 28
Hands that see: The CNAM Lectures (1958-71)
Jean Louis Cohen 48
Alphabet of structures
Benedikt Huber 56
Jean Prouvé in detail: systems of assembly
Franz Graf 60
The neoprene joint
Roberto Grignolo 78
Joints and seals 80
Notes on the Aluminium Centenary Pavilion
Jürg Conzett 84
The asymmetrical 'crutch' of the Evian Pump Room
Catherine Dumont d'Ayot 92
Serge Kétoff
Bernard Marrey 98
Prouvé versus Mies: Alpexpo
Pean-Pierre Cêtre 100
Louis Fruitet
Bernard Marrey 106
Tools and production methods
From the workshop to the ateliers
Catherine Coley 106
Ironwork
Catherine Coley 124
Robert Mallet-Stevens
Olivier Cinqualbre 126
Tony Garnier
Dominique Châtelet 128
Sheet metal and welding
Jean Prouvé 130
Aéro-Club Roland-Garros Buc, 1935-36 132
Maison du peuple, Clichy, 1935-39 140
Marcel Lods
Cuillemette Morel-Journel 148
Vladimir Bodiansky
Olivier Cinqualbre 150
Stainless steel
Jean Prouvé 152
Promoting innovation
Florence Hachez-Leroy 154
After Maxéville: from Avenue Kléber to Square Louvois (1954-57)
Michel Bataille 158
CIMT / Catherine Coley 160
Jean Swetchine
Bernard Marrey 166
Prouvé as an engineering consultant and the Blanc-Manteaux Workshop
Laurence Allégret 168
'Factoried' houses, metal, wood, concrete : We need factoried houses
Jean Prouvé 176
Prouvé, reconstruction, and the Saarland
Rémi Baudoui 186
The use of wood and the BCC House
Christian Sumi 194
Pierre Jeanneret
Hélène Bauchet-Cauquil 200
André Sive
Olivier Cinqualbre 204
Henri Prouvé
Vincent Bradel 206
Tropical houses
Christian Enjolras 208
African experimentation
Joseph Abram 214
Central portal frames 224
Bernard Laffaille and the development of the 'Prouvé-Shreds'
Nicolas Nogue 226
The Nancy House
Tatsuo Iwaoka 230
Shells 236
Crutches 238
Prouvé's involvement in the Unité d'habitation
Ruggero Tropeano 240
Le Corbusier
Guillemette Morel-Journal 244
Between 'bottle rack' and metabolism: Prouvé's concrete structures
Markus Peter 246
Core constructions 254
For industry
Shuichi Matsumura 256
Demountable and mobile construction
Adolph Stiller 260
An air of mobility
Pierre Lebrun 266
Houses like cars?
François Chéry 272
Musée des beaux-arts du Havre: Jean Prouvé and LWD
Joseph Abram 278
Experimenting with plastics
Philippe Bancilhon 280
Jean Prouvé and Berlin's Freie Universität
Peter Cachola Schmal and Ingeborg Flagge 284
Other construction systems 288
Factoried houses are comfortable houses
Franz Graf 290
Furniture and interiors : Jean Prouvé's 'anti-design'
Jan van Geest 304
Furniture 310
Furniture, design, manufacture, marketing
Catherine Coley 314
Charlotte Perriand / Charlotte Benton 330
Jean Prouvé, UAM, and the Salon des arts méagers
Jacques Rouaud 334
Jean Prouvé: the interiors
Arthur Rüegg 340
Reception, legacy and biography
Reception, legacy, biography: the critical reception of Jean Prouvé's work
Guillemette Morel-Journel 348
Reception in Japan
Yoshiyuki Yamana 350
Junzo Sakakura: exchanges with Jean Prouvé
Yasuto Ota 354
A prototypical legacy
Axel Venacque 356
The Nancy School
Henri Claude 362
Trajectories
Catherine Prouvé 366
Appendix
Biography 374
Index of Names 380
Index of Projects 382
Illustration Credits, Bibliography 383
List of Contributors 384