Le Corbusier once said that Prouve "combines the soul of an engineer with that of an architect." But he was trained as neither. He was a builder-fabricator with a poetic understanding of humble materials like pressed tin, aluminum and plywood. In 1949, Prouve and his brother, Henri, won a competition staged by the government under de Gaulle to design inexpensive housing and administrative buildings for France's African colonies.
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