André Lurçat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

André Lurçat

French architect

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1894

Place of Birth: Bruyères, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 11-Jul-1970

Profession: architect

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About André Lurçat

  • 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 Bruyères, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts 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 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, 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 Maubeuge (1945).
  • He was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the 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.

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