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André Lurçat (; 27 August 1894 – 11 July 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 Bruyères, studied at the
École des Beaux-Arts ; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
in Nancy, worked in the office of Robert Mallet-Stevens, began building a series of houses in the 1920s, and became interested in the principles of
social housing Public housing, also known as social housing, refers to Subsidized housing, subsidized or affordable housing provided in buildings that are usually owned and managed by local government, central government, nonprofit organizations or a ...
to address the French housing crisis between the wars. In 1928 he was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (International Congress of Modern Architecture). Along with Adolf Loos,
Richard Neutra Richard Joseph Neutra ( ; 8 April 1892 – 16 April 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. His most ...
, 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
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(1945). He was a professor at the
École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs The École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (; ÉnsAD) also known as Arts Decos' and École des Arts décoratifs, is a public grande école of art and design, constituent member of PSL Research University. The school is located in the R ...
and the
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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


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

* * 20th-century French architects French landscape architects Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members 1894 births 1970 deaths People from Vosges (department) École des Beaux-Arts alumni {{France-architect-stub