Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures

MOCA
Pacific Design Center
Los Angeles, California

"He combines the soul of an engineer with that of an architect.”
--Le Corbusier

Prouvé (1901–84) sought to create furniture and simple lightweight metal building systems whose constructive logic permitted easy fabrication and use. His major preoccupation was with prefabrication technology for architecture, and all his work, from cafeteria chairs to public buildings to new solutions for temporary housing, adheres to the dictum "Never design anything that cannot be made.

For some reason when I first read that I thought it was "never design anything that has already been made."
- tom moody 10-10-2005 7:59 pm [add a comment]