Jean Prouvé designed "The Tropical House" in 1949 as a prototype for inexpensive, easily assembled housing to transport to France's African colonies. Fabricated in the designer's French workshops, the components for the house were completed in 1951 and flown disassembled to Africa. The house was erected in the town of Brazzaville, Congo, where it remained for nearly 50 years. Jean Prouvé: Tropical House is an in-depth look at the early French modernist's applied theories of prefabricated architecture. Copiously illustrated, this book studies the development of Prouvé's demountable buildings and houses and includes never-before-seen archival materials from the extensive collections of the Centre Pompidou and the designer's estate. The final chapter traces architectural historian Robert Rubin's voyage of discovery as he restored and prepared an exhibition of this iconic experiment in prefabricated housing, along with an appendix of press articles from the period to position the work in its contemporary context.

Jean Prouvé: The Tropical House

Arts & Photography

Rubin, Robert

Cinqualbre olivier

Architecture

Editions du Centre Pompidou

Jean Renaudie - Architecte de la complexité

RENAUDIE, Serge

PATRIMOINE

Renzo piano, un regard construit

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

CENTRE POMPIDOU

Robert mallet-stevens l'oeuvre complete

JEAN PROUVE - LA MAISON TROPICALE/THE TROPICAL HOUSE (BILINGUE ANGLAIS/FRANCAIS)

From the Centre Pompidou. Very good condition.

richard rogers + architectes

Georges Braque : L'Espace

Chassey, Éric de

COHEN, Françoise

Bellet, Harry

Adam Biro

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