MIEROP Caroline, HOA Jean-Pierre.
Simone Guillissen-Hoa: Architect (1916-1996).
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| N° d'inventaire | 30127 |
| Format | 17.5 x 24 |
| Détails | 240 p., photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782930451459 |
Born in Beijing in 1916 to a Chinese father, an engineer, and a Polish mother, a writer; schooled in Paris at the age of 12, studied in England and then in Belgium, and graduated in Brussels in 1938, Simone Guillissen-Hoa participated in the architectural adventure of the 20th century. Caroline Mierop recounts the extraordinary life of this woman, Eurasian, activist, resistance fighter, deportee, single mother, and self-employed entrepreneur.
She evokes her friends and her loves, her doubts and her progress, her clients and her achievements. She presents the first monograph of this "grande dame of architecture" to whom, until now, no publication has been devoted. With a knowledgeable and flexible pen, the author offers both an intense narrative and a detailed work, bringing together numerous testimonies and unpublished archival documents, and seven "souvenir portraits" signed Jean-Pierre Hoa.
She evokes her friends and her loves, her doubts and her progress, her clients and her achievements. She presents the first monograph of this "grande dame of architecture" to whom, until now, no publication has been devoted. With a knowledgeable and flexible pen, the author offers both an intense narrative and a detailed work, bringing together numerous testimonies and unpublished archival documents, and seven "souvenir portraits" signed Jean-Pierre Hoa.
She evokes her friends and her loves, her doubts and her progress, her clients and her achievements. She presents the first monograph of this "grande dame of architecture" to whom, until now, no publication has been devoted. With a knowledgeable and flexible pen, the author offers both an intense narrative and a detailed work, bringing together numerous testimonies and unpublished archival documents, and seven "souvenir portraits" signed Jean-Pierre Hoa.