{"product_id":"jean-prouv-architecture-5-volume-box-set-no-2-9782909187198","title":"Jean Prouvé Architecture: 5 Volume Box Set No. 2","description":"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 Seguin's tireless efforts over the past 27 years to preserve and promote these important designs. The gallery owns the largest collection of Prouv 's demountables, 22 in total.\u003cbr\u003eThe second in Galerie Patrick Seguin's series of boxed sets on Prouv 's demountable architecture, \u003ci\u003eJean Prouv  Architecture: 5 Volume Box Set No. 2\u003c\/i\u003e compiles five further volumes of research on these structures: monographs on the Metropole Demountable House, the 6 x 6 Demountable House (adapted by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), the Villejuif Temporary School, the 4 x 4 Military Shelter and the \u003ci\u003eLes Jours Meilleurs\u003c\/i\u003e Demountable House. Each monograph (available individually or as part of this limited-edition box set) focuses on a single building, and is luxuriously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs. \u003cbr\u003eThough lacking any formal education in architecture, \u003cb\u003e Jean Prouv \u003c\/b\u003e (1901-84) became one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, boldly experimenting with new building designs, materials and methods. \"His postwar work has left its mark everywhere,\" wrote Le Courbusier, \"decisively.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Galerie Patrick Seguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782909187198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 8.30w x 3.00d","brand":"Jean Prouv\u0026#233;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38400554008757,"sku":"9782909187198","price":191.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_22d35334-0894-4c44-a2c8-9eedc4bc896d.jpg?v=1612164626","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/jean-prouv-architecture-5-volume-box-set-no-2-9782909187198","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}