André Lurçat
Illustration — Building by André Lurçat, Werkbundsiedlung, Vienna André Lurçat (27 August 1894 – 11 July 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).
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André Lurçat
Строительство Москвы - № 3 - 1934 · Public domain
- Full name
- André Émile Lucien Lurçat.
- Born
- 1894. · Bruyères.
- Died
- 1970. · Sceaux.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- architect, designer and urban planner.
- Fields
- architecture and urbanism.
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Known for
- Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Maubeuge.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Building by André Lurçat, Werkbundsiedlung, Vienna André Lurçat (27 August 1894 – 11 July 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).
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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.
Villa Guggenbuhl (1927), Rue Nansouty, Paris
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1894
André Lurçat born at Bruyères.
1927
Hôtel Froriep de Salis is dated 1927.
1931
Ecole Karl Marx is dated 1931.
1932
All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine is dated 1932.
1967
Town hall of Le Blanc-Mesnil is dated 1967.
1970
André Lurçat died at Sceaux.
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Bruyères.
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Sceaux.
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• Architecture, Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1929. • Formes, composition et lois d'harmonie: Eléments d'une science de l'esthétique architecturale, Paris, Editions Vincent, Fréal & Cie, 1953. • Œuvres récentes, Paris, Editions Vincent, Fréal & Cie, 1961.
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- 1.Portraits d'architectes. expositions-virtuelles.citedelarchitecture.fr.
- 2.LURÇAT André, Émile, Lucien – Maitron.
- 3.André Lurçat: l'architecte. Picard. 1995. 978-2-7084-0475-5.
- 4.Isabelle Regnier. A Paris, la Maison-atelier Lurçat, archétype du modernisme des années 1920. lemonde.fr. 19 septembre 2025.
- 5.Objet LURAN-C-25-3 (photo).
- 6.Objet LURAN-C-24 (photo).
- 7.Objet LURAN-J-25 (photos).
- 8.Objet LURAN-C-27-1 (photo).
- 9.Objet LURAN-C-27-4 (photo).
- 10.Objet LURAN-K-29-3 (photos).
- 11.Objet LURAN-J-31-2.
- 12.Objet LURAN-D-31-1 (photos).
- 13.Objet LURAN-F-45-2 (photos).
- 14.Objet LURAN-F-51-3 (photos).
- 15.Chapitre F. Maubeuge, reconstruction.
- 16.Chapitre H. Saint-Denis, projets et réalisations.
- 17.Sceaux magazine, septembre 2010.
- 18.Chapitre G. Le Blanc-Mesnil, projets et réalisations.
- 19.Bruno D. Cot, « Paris. Les projets fous… auxquels vous avez échappé », cahier central publié dans L'Express, semaine du 29 mars 2013, p. XIV.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Paul Guérin, J.-B. Ache, André Prothin, Marcel Cornu, André Lurçat, André Lurçat Architecte, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 1967
- Jean-Louis Cohen, André Lurçat (1894-1970) : l'autocritique d'un moderne, IFA, 1995
- Pierre et Robert Joly, L'architecte André Lurçat, Picard, 2000
- L'œuvre d'André Lurçat en Seine-Saint-Denis (1945-1970). Région Ile-de-France / Somogy éditions d'Art. 2008. 978-2-7572-0235-7.
- Lurçat, André. Répertoire des architectes nés ou actifs dans les Vosges : 1800-1940. Épinal. Archives départementales des Vosges. 2007. 978-2-86088-052-7. 37.
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André Lurçat was recorded at birth as André Émile Lucien Lurçat. The authorities additionally record the headings Andre Lurcat and André Emile Lucien Lurçat. His recorded language was French. One child is recorded: François Lurçat. Recorded as architect, designer and urban planner. Works and catalogued output.
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Ecole Karl Marx
1931
The circumstances in which André Lurçat stands
All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine
1932
Town hall of Le Blanc-Mesnil
1967
Hôtel Froriep de Salis
1927
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