Paul Nelson. Architect Inventor.
Pompidou Center| N° d'inventaire | 25017 |
| Format | 22 x 28 |
| Détails | 143 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782844269041 |
Trained in the Beaux-Arts and influenced by his teacher Auguste Perret, author of projects that gave rise to books more than to buildings, Paul Nelson (Chicago, 1895-Marseille, 1979) is a functionalist architect but above all a humanist: an inventor of architecture. He introduced American techniques to Europe and taught on both sides of the Atlantic.
Specializing in hospital architecture, he designed the France-United States Memorial Hospital in Saint-Lô, an emblematic monument of the Reconstruction, and the hospitals in Dinan and Arles.
His exchanges with the artists of his time with whom he was close - Joan Miro, Georges Braque for whom he built a studio in Varengeville, Alexander Calder and Fernand Léger for whom he designed a museum - generated a dynamic which renewed his understanding of space: his Suspended House is an architectural manifesto.
The exhibition and the accompanying book present the architect and inventor based on the extensive archive collection held at the Centre Pompidou.
Centre Pompidou exhibition catalog.
Trained in the Beaux-Arts and influenced by his teacher Auguste Perret, author of projects that gave rise to books more than to buildings, Paul Nelson (Chicago, 1895-Marseille, 1979) is a functionalist architect but above all a humanist: an inventor of architecture. He introduced American techniques to Europe and taught on both sides of the Atlantic.
Specializing in hospital architecture, he designed the France-United States Memorial Hospital in Saint-Lô, an emblematic monument of the Reconstruction, and the hospitals in Dinan and Arles.
His exchanges with the artists of his time with whom he was close - Joan Miro, Georges Braque for whom he built a studio in Varengeville, Alexander Calder and Fernand Léger for whom he designed a museum - generated a dynamic which renewed his understanding of space: his Suspended House is an architectural manifesto.
The exhibition and the accompanying book present the architect and inventor based on the extensive archive collection held at the Centre Pompidou.
Centre Pompidou exhibition catalog.