• FERNAND POUILLON AND ALGERIA
  • FERNAND POUILLON AND ALGERIA
  • FERNAND POUILLON AND ALGERIA
  • FERNAND POUILLON AND ALGERIA
  • FERNAND POUILLON AND ALGERIA
  • FERNAND POUILLON AND ALGERIA

    FERNAND POUILLON AND ALGERIA

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    Daphné Bengoa and Leo Fabrizio, respectively filmmaker and photographer, publish for the first time the fruits of a large-scale project carried out jointly on the Algerian work of the French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986). Fernand Pouillon designs the development of urban space with the precept of improving human living…
    Daphné Bengoa and Leo Fabrizio, respectively filmmaker and photographer, publish for the first time the fruits of a large-scale project carried out jointly on the Algerian work of the French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986).
    Fernand Pouillon designs the development of urban space with the precept of improving human living conditions: providing comfort and quality of life, regardless of the purpose of the construction (emergency housing, social, university or hotel housing). For the architect, this is the only guarantee of better integration of individuals into the social and cultural fabric. Putting humans back at the center, building for their dignity and thus, perhaps, allowing them a harmonious relationship with their environment.
    While this postulate seems obvious to everyone, Fernand Pouillon nevertheless remains one of the rare examples of the 20th century to have truly put it into practice throughout his work, in France as in Algeria. An unbridled builder, he developed each project with a demand for efficiency, rationality and economy of means. At the same time, he studied, taught, wrote and published a collection of works relating to architecture and, more broadly, on the task and responsibility of the architect. His work built in Algeria - from housing estates (1953-1958) to tourist complexes and student housing (1966-1982) - particularly sheds light on his approach and the evolution of a unique conception of social architecture. However, it remains largely unknown to the general public and the creation of a contemporary photographic corpus on this aspect of his work is unprecedented to date.

    Author : Kaouther Adimi, Daphné Bengoa, Leo Fabrizio

    Publisher: Editions Macula


    Weight: 1     kg
    Dimensions: 30.5     x 2.5 x 22.7 cm
     Language: French