André Lurçat

André Lurçat (born August 27, 1894 in Bruyères , † July 11, 1970 in Sceaux ) was a French architect .

Life

André Lurçat was a brother of the artist Jean Lurçat . After building a number of residential buildings in Paris that are representative of the style of the late 1920s and early 1930s in France, André Lurçat created his main work with the school complex in the Paris suburb of Villejuif, thanks to the support of the communist mayor Paul Vaillant-Couturier there , which helped him to international fame. He lived in the USSR from 1934 to 1937 , where, among other things, he built a children's hospital and an institute for physics and chemistry.

Works

Residential building, Werkbundsiedlung Vienna

Houses of the Villa Seurat in Paris, 14th arrondissement (1923–1928)
Villa Guggenbühl, 14th arrondissement (1927)
Villa Hefferlin in Ville-d'Avray (1931-1932)
Residential houses in the Werkbundsiedlung Vienna (1931–1932)
School complex in Villejuif (1931–1933)

literature

Oswald Haerdtl: André Lurçat, Paris . In: Moderne Baufformen, Vol. 26, 1927, pp. 98–112.
Max Raphael: André Lurçat's school building in Villejuif in: Max Raphael: For a democratic architecture . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976.
Michel Ragon: Histoire de l'Architecture et de l'Urbanisme Modernes, 2nd Naissance de la Cité Moderne 1900–1940 . Casterman, Paris 1986.
Jean-Louis Cohen : André Lurçat. 1894-1970. Autocritique d'un modern. Mardaga, Liège 1995.
A. Kramer: Atelierihäuser in Paris by André Lurçat In: Architektur und Kunst , Vol. 18, 1931, pp. 4–16

Web links

Commons : André Lurçat - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Information on André Lurçat in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

Individual evidence

^ The Smithsonian Institution has some photos of the Thérèse Bonney building . The client was the Swiss painter Walter Theodor Guggenbühl (1898–1974), not his colleague Josef Guggenbühl (1903–1968).

personal data
SURNAME	Lurçat, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French architect
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bruyeres , France
DATE OF DEATH	July 11, 1970
Place of death	Sceaux , France

[1] The Smithsonian Institution has some photos of the Thérèse Bonney building . The client was the Swiss painter Walter Theodor Guggenbühl (1898–1974), not his colleague Josef Guggenbühl (1903–1968).