Pol Abraham: architecte

Overview

If the name of Pol Abraham (1891-1966) is "notoriously disregarded", his numerous works, which cover almost 50 years, are among the most fruitful questionings of architecture, marked by their footprint on the landscape of French modernity. Ranging from villas in the region of Paris or Bretagne, to schools, hotels and medical buildings, to his post-war experience of Orléans and the first hertz network, his numerous projects are nourished by the same rich and constantly renovated reflection on the principles and techniques of construction – rendering his work strangely familiar. Overcoming the classicist rationalism of Perret while partially rejecting Le Corbusier's radical plastics, Pol Abraham explores and eventually develops his own architectural voice. 

This first catalogue of his work, accompanied by an anthology of his most significant critical texts, is illustrated with more than 600 photographs, plans and drawings (most of them previously unpublished) that are profoundly analysed and discussed in detail. Alongside the exhibition in Centre Pompidou, this publication intends to restart a dialogue with a theoretician and active builder of modernism who was concerned with the principles governing a modular type of prefabrication, resulting in a moderated industrialisation of architecture. 

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