André Lurçat
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André Lurçat (August 27, 1894 – July 11, 1970) was a French modernist architect, landscape architect, furniture designer, city planner, and founding member of
CIAM. He was active in the rebuilding in French cities after World War II. He was the brother of visual artist Jean Lurçat
.
Lurçat was born in
Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (International Congress of Modern Architecture). Along with Adolf Loos, Richard Neutra, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and others, he demonstrated a family residence at the Vienna Werkbund exhibition of 1932, produced his best-known villa Hefferlin at Ville-d'Avray
, then went to Moscow to work for the Soviet government from 1934 to 1937.
Lurçat is known for advancing the cause of modernism in landscape architecture; he took a position, contrary to the proponents of Existenzminimum, that all social housing must include gardens. He is also known for his planned postwar reconstruction of the French city of
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
in Paris from 1945 to 1947, and a member of the board of architecture of the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urban Development.
Selected buildings
Villa Guggenbuhl (1927), Rue Nansouty, Paris 48°49′24″N 2°20′07″E / 48.823325°N 2.335326°E
Selected writings
- Architecture, Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1929.
- Formes, composition et lois d'harmonie: Eléments d'une science de l'esthétique architecturale, Paris, Editions Vincent, Fréal & Cie, 1953.
- Œuvres récentes, Paris, Editions Vincent, Fréal & Cie, 1961.
References
- ISBN 978-2-87009-598-0.
- Joly, Pierre; Joly, Robert (2000). L'architecte André Lurçat. Paris: Picard. ISBN 978-2-7084-0475-5.
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