WINNER OF THE DAM ARCHITECTURAL BOOK AWARD 2014

The Stones of Fernand Pouillon. An Alternative Modernism in French Architecture is the first book in English on the work of French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912–1986) and provides a new insight into twentieth-century architecture

This book includes Jacques Lucan’s analysis of his post-war urbanism and its critique of mainstream modernism, a description of material construction by Adam Caruso, and Pouillon himself inspired by Aix-en-Provence and reflecting on the contemporary architect’s position in a cultural continuum. At the book’s heart lie survey drawings and photographs of Pouillon’s key Parisian housing projects.

WINNER OF THE DAM ARCHITECTURAL BOOK AWARD 2014

The Stones of Fernand Pouillon. An Alternative Modernism in French Architecture is the first book in English on the work of French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912–1986) and provides a new insight into twentieth-century architecture

This book includes Jacques Lucan’s analysis of his post-war urbanism and its critique of mainstream modernism, a description of material construction by Adam Caruso, and Pouillon himself inspired by Aix-en-Provence and reflecting on the contemporary architect’s position in a cultural continuum. At the book’s heart lie survey drawings and photographs of Pouillon’s key Parisian housing projects.

This book is first in a series on ‘The Limits of Modernism – a Forgotten Generation of European Architects’.