Galerie Patrick Seguin – serie

This is the revised edition of Patrick Seguin's 2013 volume on Jean Prouvé's Maison Démontable 6x6 Demountable House. It includes new images and layout. At the end of the Second World War, Prouvé began designing temporary houses for the homeless in Lorraine and Franche-Comté in eastern France, using his patented axial frame as the basis for modules of various sizes.

This revised edition of Patrick Seguin's 2013 volume on Jean Prouvé's Maison Démontable 8x8 Demountable House includes new images and layout. In 1938, continuing his research into demountable houses, Prouvé came up with the structural principle of the axial portal frame, which he patented the following year. He applied it to his government-commissioned eight-meter modules, documented here.

The Ateliers Jean Prouvé built the structure housing the Ferembal offices in Nancy in 1948. At the request of the Galerie Patrick Seguin, in 2010, architect Jean Nouvel undertook a thoroughgoing "adaptation" of the Prouvé building, demonstrating the enduring relevance of the method. This volume documents both projects.

In 1969, the French oil company Total began implementing a mass-production model for its gas stations—large ones for France's freeways, and the smaller roadside units. The company called in Jean Prouvé, who had already amply demonstrated his skills in the field of prefabrication. This volume documents this dimension of Prouvé's "demontable" architecture.

Jean Prouvé and Pierre Jeanneret's BCC Demountable House is part of the series of projects initiated in 1939 that center on the construction principle of the axial portal frame, created by Prouvé in 1938. The several examples of this small wooden building that were produced between 1941 and 1943 (during extreme wartime conditions) emphasize the two men's rare ability to adapt to constrained circumstances.

Prouvé's first postwar temporary house designed for his own family, remarkable for its use of the axial portal frame pavilionWhile on vacation in 1946, Jean Prouvé (1901–84) began looking for a site to build a temporary 8 x 8 house that could accommodate his large family. The Carnac Demountable House would go on to become an important part of the architect and designer's modular canon.