84 AVIGNON La Croix des oiseaux, et un quartier construit dans les années 60-70, une célébrité a même habité la cité (Mireille Mathieu) 800 lgts HLM Arch Fernand POUILLON.

Architecte et urbaniste français, Fernand Pouillon fut l’un des grands bâtisseurs de la reconstruction d'après-guerre. On lui doit de nombreux bâtiments à Marseille, en région parisienne et Algérie. Les realisations de FERNAND POUILLON on peut ajouter qu'il s'est battu pour éviter que les façades du vieux port ne soient qu'un cadrillage sans proportions. on en voit les vestiges côté mucem, le chantier était déjà engagé. fernandpouillon.com/sud-est.html @ 84 Avignon (Vaucluse) 1955-61 Cité La Croix des Oiseaux

rue de la Croix des Oiseaux @ Ces 800 logements sociaux réalisés en préfabrication lourde laisseront un goût amer à F. Pouillon. Il conte dans ses "Mémoires d'un architecte" les conditions ... Bref; misfitsarchitecture.com/2017/05/14/architecture-misfit-29... @ Avignon (Vaucluse)

1953

Cité administrative

Photos d'archives

Photos contemporaines

Avignon Cité administrative

C'est avec le préfet Boissier, qui tentera ensuite d'introduire Fernand Pouillon à la Martinique, que l'architecte construit le regroupement des services préfectoraux...

Avignon (Vaucluse)

1940

réalisation en 1945

groupe de logements

en attente

Informations en attente

Avignon (Vaucluse)

1953

Immeuble d'habitation

avenue Jean Jaurès

Picture

Informations en attente

Avignon (Vaucluse)

1955-61

Cité La Croix des Oiseaux

rue de la Croix des Oiseaux

Photos d'archives

Photos contemporaines

Avignon Croix des Oiseaux

Ces 800 logements sociaux réalisés en préfabrication lourde laisseront un goût amer à F. Pouillon. Il conte dans ses "Mémoires d'un architecte" les conditions ...

Avignon (Vaucluse)

1955-1957

La Montagnette

logements sociaux HLM

rue Maurice Barrès

Avignon La Montagnette

Cet ensemble de logements sociaux dessiné par Fernand Pouillon pour aider un confrère comprend en réalité deux entités de logements...

Bastia (Corse du Nord)

1958-61

Aménagement des quartiers

du Vieux-Port

Maquette

 

Bastia Vieux-Port

Si la reconstruction du Vieux-Port de Bastia fut si tardive c'est que les difficultés urbaines étaient si importantes qu'aucun projet avant celui de Fernand Pouillon n'avait satisfait ...

Bastia (Corse du Nord)

1958-61

Immeubles du Vieux-Port

Maquette et plan d'ensemble

Plans-Coupes-Façades

Photographies d'archives

Photos contemporaines

Bastia Vieux-Port immeuble

Les immeubles du Vieux-Port de Bastia dessinés par Fernand Pouillon sont volontairement banaux dans le paysage urbain mais ils offrent des solutions urbaines très imaginatives...

Baux-de-Provence (BdR)

vers 1960

La Cabro d'Or

L'Oustau de Baumanière

Photographies contemporaines

Baux-de-Provence Cabro d'or

Fernand Pouillon dessine vers 1960 pour le propriétaire du restaurant L'Oustau de Baumanière des écuries qui seront transformées en chambres d'hôtel...

 

Bonifacio (Corse du sud)

fin des années 1970

Une villa

Golfe de Santa Manza

Picture

"Cette maison implantée dans le sable relève d'une technique, la renforçant grâce à un système antismique..."

 

Cabriès (Bouches-du-Rhône)

1936

Villa Falconetti

Villa Falconetti

La villa Falconetti est très probablement la première maison individuelle conçue et construite par F. Pouillon à l'âge de 24 ans donc.

Cassis (Bouches-du-Rhône)

1953-1954

Deux villas

Picture

F. Pouillon a réalisé à Cassis la villa Barthélémy et une villa mitoyenne, la première étant actuellement une chambre d'hôtes...

Cotignac (Var)

1976

Monastère

Plans-Coupes-Façades

Photographies contemporaines

 

Monastère de Cotignac

Lorsqu'elles quittent l'Algérie, les sœurs de Médéa demandent à F. Pouillon de dessiner leur prochain monastère, qu'elles situeront à Cotignac...

Fontvieille (BdR)

1950

Carrières

Bureaux, logement, atelier

Photos contemporaines

Fontvieille carrières

La machine à pré-tailler la pierre est encore sur le site. Cette invention de Paul Marcerou a permis à F. Pouillon de déployer à Alger...

Gardanne (BdR)

1946-1947

Cité-jardin Casablanca

Maquette et chantier

Photos contemporaines

Gardanne cité Casablanca

La cité-jardin Casablanca tient son nom de ses toitures plates, une exception à cette époque dans le village de mineurs de Biver...

La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var)

1950

Village des Sablettes

Maquette - Photographies de chantier et de détails

Photos contemporaines

Les Sablettes

Pour que le village de pêcheurs dévasté par la guerre soit le plus beau possible au coût le plus faible, Fernand Pouillon imagine de le reconstruire avec les déchets de pierre ...

LA RECONSTRUCTION DES SABLETTES 1950-1953 Architecte : Fernand POUILLON

Picture

diaporama par Carine Calafato-Calba

conseillère pédagogique aux arts visuels pour le Var dans l'académie de Nice.

Ce diaporama retrace l'histoire du site et sa reconstruction. Pour ce qui concerne

l'épisode du CNL (et non CNR) au début des années 60 il faut se reporter à

l'ouvrage de Bernard Marrey "Fernand Pouillon l'homme à abattre"

aux éditions du Linteau

et

Picture

LE HAMEAU DES SABLETTES

document en deux pages

par S.Duprat-Mathiesen, conseillère aux Arts Plastiques, Académie de Nice

La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var)

les Sablettes

1950

Hôtel Provence-Plage

Photographies d'archives

de chantier - de détails

Photos contemporaines

Les Sablettes Hôtel

Le programme de reconstruction du village des Sablettes comprend l'Hôtel Provence-Plage et son restaurant. Son escalier en colimaçon conduisait à une terrasse ...

La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var)

1950

les Sablettes

Station service

Photographies du chantier

Photographies contemporaines

Les Sablettes station service

L'étonnante voûte de la station service aurait disparu sans l'instauration de la protection du village des Sablettes en ZPPAUP et la sensibilisation exercée notamment par l'architecte Rudy Ricciotti...

Marignane (BdR)

1953-1956

Aéroport

Photographies d'archives

d'études du projet - maquette

Photographies contemporaines

Aéroport de Marignane

Tandis que Fernand Pouillon étudie la réalisation de l'aéroport de Marignane, Auguste Perret réalise les hangars d'aviation (photographies incluses dans notre album de photographies d'archives)...

La-Colle-sur-Loup

(Alpes Maritimes)

1970

Hôtel Mas d'Artigny

La-Colle-sur-Loup Mas

Le dispositif des chambres distribué en éventail ressemble beaucoup à celui de l'hôtel Gourara à Timimoun en Algérie réalisé à la même époque.

Sanary-sur-mer (Var)

1955

une villa

Villa Chichourlié

Réalisée pour une personnalité amie...

Val d'Isère (Savoie)

La Taverne

1958

 

Val d'Isère Chalet

Ce chalet réalisé pour l'un de ses associés a connu quelques transformations ... www.maison.com/architecture/portraits/fernand-pouillon-ar... @

1934

Palais Albert 1er, (30 apartments, 2 commercial units), avenue Albert 1er, Aix-en-Provence, France, in collaboration with Henri Enjouvin. Pouillon was 22.

 

1935

Palais Victor Hugo (28 apartments), avenue Victor Hugo, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

 

1936

Groupe Corderie 25 (40 apartments), 27 avenue de la Corse, Marseille, France

 

The fernandpouillon.com website lists the creation or extension of “co-operative cells” [“caves coopèratives”] around this time, in the towns of Rosières, Lussas, Vinezac, Vogue, Lablachère, Senas, Graveson, Maillane, Eygalières, Mallemort, Saint-Andiol, Châteauneuf de Gadagne, Le Thor, La Tour d’Aygues, and Sablet. All were formed in association with Pouillon’s former mentor Henri Enjouvin. I imagine these to be something like architects of record on-call, and with some fee arrangement already in place for fast turnaround. It would have to be because, as you will see, the amount of work attributed to Pouillon is phenomenal. Pouillon was beyond prolific, he had a compulsion to design buildings and get them built.

 

1938

Mondovi Building (18 apartments), rue de Mondovi, Marseille, France

 

 

Villa for Doctor Bernard, quartier Saint-Julien Villa de M. Magallon, avenue Flotte, Marseille, France

Villa for M. Teissier, quartier Saint-Barnabé Villa de M. Terracole, au Roucas Blanc, Marseille, France

Villa for M. Falconetti, Cabriès, France

 

1939

Group “Résidence” quai de Rive-Neuve (36 apartments), Marseille, France

 

1940

A group of 70 apartments, Avignon, France

 

1942 was the end of Vichy Government rule in Algeria and the end of Le Corbusier’s speculative Plan Obus for Algiers. It was also the year Pouillon, now 30, became a registered architect. Previously, it had not been necessary to be one in order to build.

 

1943

Restoration of private mansion of M. Columeau, bd du Redon Immeuble 38 rue Longue des Capucins, Marseille, France

 

1944 was the liberation of France and the dissolution of the Vichy government.

 

1945

“Dames de France”, transformation of a store into offices for the American base

Grand Arénas, provisional accommodation for prisoners, deportees and refugees

Gendarmerie Augusto, Marseille, France

 

1946

The Regional Center for Physical Education and Sport, CREPS, chemin du Guiraudet Gardanne, Aix-en-Provence, France

Casablanca Garden City in Biver, 21 dwellings, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

1947

Deux écoles déclarées dans les “Mémoires d’un architecte”, Aix-en-Provence, France

Hotel in Cap Manuel, Dakar, Senegal

Stade municipal, avenue des Ecoles Militaires, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

Pouillon’s 1947 Aix-en-Provence City Stadium is often presented as the project in which his personal “style” began to emerge but (in perfect illustration of how words convert buildings into architecture) this turns out to be nothing more than perfectly normal things that everybody should be doing, like updating traditional construction processes and using several different materials so each does what they do best.

 

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1948

Nestlé Factory, chocolate and soluble coffee factory, offices, common services and employee housing, Saint-Menet, France

Restoration of the Villa of Doctor Latil, Aix-en-Provence, France

Station sanitaire maritime, Avenue Vaudoyer, Marseille, France

 

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1949

Police Building, 2 rue Antoine Becker, Marseille, France

Canebière Building, boulevard de la Canebière, apartments, offices, retail units, Marseille, France

La Tourette, Protis Square, 260 dwellings, shops garages, Marseille, France

 

The civic projects increased in scale and importance, leading to the 1948-1953 La Tourette housing complex in Marseille, just behind the Old Port. There’s a glowing description of La Tourette here, along with many fine photographs of it.

 

 

With La Tourette project, Pouillon refined his system of co-ordinating all the elements of a project – a system that came to be known as The Pouillon System. Details are sketchy, but it included artists and craftsmen such as cabinetmakers, locksmiths and stonecutters and the invention/use of construction processes intended to reduce the cost of material and labour. One of these was pierre banchée in which stone tiles are used as permanent shuttering.

 

 

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Other innovations included a method of providing better soundproofing between apartments. A legend to the section above might be able to tell us more about this. In 1955, Pouillon created the CNL, the Comptoir National du Logement, which was a commercial and legal structure that would allow him to design thousands of housing units in Paris and to build them as a developer.

 

1950

Reconstruction of the Sablettes, seaside resort, 150 apartments, shops, a hotel, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France

Carrières de Fontvieille, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France

Offices, Garden Dwellings, Atelier, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France

Atelier for the painter, Marchutz, Aix-en-Provence, France

Villa for the mayor of d’Aix-en-Provence, Henri Mouret, Aix-en-Provence, France

Hôtel d’Espagnet, Cours Mirabeau, Headquarters of the University Rectorate plus official Housing, Aix-en-Provence, France

Restoration of a listed monument, Aix-en-Provence, France

Saint-Charles University Library, Marseille, France

Library of the Faculty of Sciences, Centre for Administrative Studies, Marseille, France

 

1951

Building rue Méry, Reconstruction of the Vieux-Port quarter, housing, shops and bars, Marseille, France

Outer areas of the Old Port district, monument surroundings, roads and public spaces, Marseille, France

Shopping Cart District Urban Redevelopment, Marseille, France

Two hundred apartments, 1-6 room apartments for rent, Aix-en-Provence, France

Reconstruction of the Old Port, seafront 1200 m, 350 apartments and shops, Marseille, France

 

1952

Faculty of Law, resumption of the works for completion of University Library, Aix-en-Provence, France

Villa La Brillanne, residence of the family of Fernand Pouillon, Aix-en-Provence, France

Lycée Colbert, commercial and industrial learning center, Marseille, France

 

1953

Atelier for the painter André Masson, Aix-en-Provence, France

Administrative City, architectural and urban development program, Avignon, France

Terminal, offices, technical block, control tower, Cassis, Marignane, France

Villa Barthélemy and Villa X., seafront villas, Algiers, Algeria

Diar El Mahçoul, 1800 apartments, Algiers, Algeria

 

This last was Pouillon’s first project in Algeirs and the project he was invited there for. The hillside site required 100,000 of terracing and huge retaining walls. A main road divided the French side and Algerian side. Two thirds of the 1,454 housing units were on the French side of the road with views of the sea (and huge retaining walls).

 

 

The other third were on the Algerian side facing the valley and had small courtyards. We may think this discriminatory but we forget that “view” is a cultural invention (whereas houses in a Mediterranean fishing village, for example, might have a view of the sea for reasons connected with weather and fish). Another such difference showed in sanitation facilities and, again, we can’t say if this is cultural prejudice or cultural preference.

 

1953 (cont’d)

Diar Es Saada, 800 lodgings, Algiers, Algeria

Villa des Arcades, restaurant, and development of a swimming pool, residence and agency of F. Alger, Algerie

Residential building, regularization of the extension of the course Jean Jaurès in front of the administrative city, Avignon, France

 

1954

Diar El Mahçoul, Saint-Jean-Baptiste church Climat of France, 3500 dwellings, Algiers, Algiers

 

Pouillon’s 1954-1957 Climat de France project for Algiers has a touch of what two decades later would be called Post-Modern Classicism. We look at it and see Rossi, unfairly.

 

 

The Mayor of Algiers believed a properly housed population made for a happy population and Pouillon obliged by combining the social aspirations of Modernism giving residents something larger to feel a part of, and the proto Post-Modern idea of giving residents something grander to live up to.

 

 

Diar Es Saada, girls ‘and boys’ schools, Algiers, Algierie

El Karma, Valmy (near Oran), Agierie

City of 800 houses, Algiers, Algierie

Cité Lescure, Designed for a colleague, Oran, Algiers

Military city for 8000 inhabitants, Magharé, Iran

Military city for 8000 inhabitants, Shahabad, Iran

Iranian Empire Headquarters, Tehran, Iran

Geographical Institute, Tehran, Iran

Railway station, Machad, Iran

 

This was a project in collaboration with the Iranian architect, Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou.

 

 

Railway station, Tabriz, Iran

 

As was this.

 

 

1955

Cité universitaire les Gazelles, 564 avenue Gaston Berger, 500 beds, Aix-en-Provence, France

La Montagnette social housing, rue Maurice Barrès, Vignon, France

Cité La Croix des Oiseaux, about 800 social housing units with much prefabrication, rue de la Croix des Oiseaux, Avignon, France

Villa for Admiral Jubelin, Sanary, France

 

1956

Development of the Old Port district, partially completed. Reconstruction of several Old Port buildings, reconstruction, Bastia, France

 

1957

Charzola Building, 58 rue Emile Zola, 93 dwellings, Paris, France

47 avenue de Friedland, apartment for Fernand Pouillon, Paris, France

Victor Hugo Residences, avenue Jean Lolive, 282 apartments and retail units, Pantin, France

 

 

Chalet, Val d’Isere, France

Municipal stadium, rue des Ecoles Militaires, awning above the stands (destroyed in the eighties), Aix-en-Provence, France

Résidence le Parc, 2,635 lodgings, shopping centers, Meudon-la-Forêt, France

 

Pouillon and the CNL’s first major successes were apartment developments of three hundred units in Pantin (1957) and five hundred units in Montrouge (1958). Despite the stone and marbile finishes, the apartments were affordable on a 25-year plan.

 

1958

Private apartment, Boulevard Suchet, Paris, France

Le Point du Jour, 2260 logements et équipements, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Peugeot-quai de Passy, projet d’extension du Point du Jour, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Résidence du Stade Buffalo, 466 logements et commerces, Montrouge, France

 

 

1959

Hôtel des Ursins, île de la Cité, résidence de F. Pouillon Appartement de M. Junot Iéna, Paris, France

Résidence Jules Ferry, 60 logements et garages au rez-de-chaussée, Montrouge, France

Résidence le Parc, 2,635 lodgings, shopping centers, Meudon-la-Forêt, France

 

Pouillon was to make himself many enemies when the 2,635 apartments of the Résidence du Parc in Meudon-la-Forêt (1959) came online at less than market prices.

 

 

1960

Résidence du Quai, 135 apartments and shopping mall, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Hôtel-restaurant Baumanière, la Cabro d’Or, Les Baux de Provence, France

 

1961

Hotel, Puerto-Rico

 

Pouillon’s unorthodox corporate arrangements encouraged financial impropriety and the CNL was unable to pay its contractors in 1959 and was wound up in 1961 and Pouillon charged, arrested, de-registered and jailed. Eighteen months later he escaped but ten months later gave himself up, only to be sentenced to another four years. This was later reduced to three and he was released in February 1964. Charges of breaching the laws of companies, of breaches of trust, fraud and concealment were dismissed but charges of the abuse of social assets, false declaration of release of shares and false notarial declaration remained. During his imprisonment, we was to write Les Pierres Sauvages published in 1964, and Memoirs of an Architect, published 1968.

 

 

1962

Domaine de Lanruen (detached houses), partially realized, construction site not monitored, Erquy, France

 

1964

Masterplan for the new town of Créteil, Créteil, France

La Vallée Moussue, restoration of a house, Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, France.

 

1965

Hôtel du Port, for the company Bancaire, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France

 

The masterplan was to be Pouillon’s first major job after jail and, perhaps because of this, he received death threats urging him not to work in France. Jacques Chevallier suggested Pouiloon return to Algeria and he did. For the next twenty years Pouillon was to design hotels to improve the tourism infrastructure of Algeria, as well as many civic and educational buildings. His greatest regret was never being being asked to design mass housing again, either in France or in Algeria.

 

1966

Algerian coastal tourism development plan (partially realized), Algiers, Algeria

Villa des Arcades, restoration and extension, Algiers, Algeria

Diar El Mahçoul, transformation of the church into a mosque, Algiers, Algeria

Hotel Le Caîd, 400 beds, Bou Saada, Algeria

Hotel Marhaba, 300 beds, Laghouat, Algeria

Hotel El Minzah, 300 beds, Moretti, Algeria

Spa and hotel with 200 beds, Saida, Algeria

 

1967

Pavillon de la Foire d’Alger, Algiers, Algeria

The Calle (El Kala), Algiers, Algeria

Hotel El Manar, 300 beds, Algiers, Algeria

Tourist complex, 3,000 beds, Moretti, Algeria

Hotel El Mountazah (Ksar du Rocher), 300 beds, Seraïdi, Algeria

Tourist complex, 4,000 beds, Zeralda, Algeria

 

1968

Restaurant “Maxim’s, air conditioning and facilities, Paris, France

Caravanserai of 150 beds, Ain Sefr, Algeria

Hotel Plaza, 500 beds, Annaba, Algeria

Caravanserai the Rym, 150 beds, Beni-Abbes, Algeria

Hotel with 300 beds, Biskra, Algeria

Hotel school for 1,600 students, Biskra, Algeria

Caravanserai El Boustan, 200 beds Saharan dwellings (detached houses), Biskra, Algeria

Saharan homes (detached houses), Biskra, Algeria

New market and renovation of old market, cinema, theater, 15,000 m2, Biskra, Algeria

Abattoirs, Biskra, Ghardaïa, Algerie

Saharan homes (detached houses), Laghouat, Algeria

Caravanserai El Mehri, 200 beds, Ouargla, Algeria

Prefecture of the Oasis and Administrative City, 15 000 m2 Saharan dwellings (detached houses), Ouargla, Algeria

Tourist complex, 4,000 beds El Riadh Hotel, Sidi Ferruch, Algeria

 

 

Tourist complex, shopping center Hôtel les Hammadites, 350 beds, Tichy, Algerie

Caravanserai El Gourara, 150 beds, Timimoun, Algeria

 

 

Tourist complex, 2,000 beds, Tipasa Beach, Algeria

 

 

Tourist complex, 2,500 beds Arrangement of the harbor, village and barbecue, Tipasa Club, Algeria

Slaughterhouses, Touggourt, Algerie

Caravanserai L’Oasis, 200 beds, Touggourt, Algeria

Saharan homes (detached houses), Touggourt, Algeria

Hotel Les Sables d’Or, 600 beds, Zeralda, Algeria

Hotel with 300 beds, Tamanrasset, Algeria

 

1969

Prototype “metal house” at the edge of J. Chevallier, El Ançor, Algeria

Andalusian tourist complex of 2,000 beds, Algiers, Algeria

Hotel with 600 beds, Tipasa Matarès, Algeria

Hotel school for 1600 students, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria

 

1970

La Breche aux Loups, 444 detached houses, commercialization, Ozoir-la-Ferrière, France

27 post offices, sorting centers and telephone exchanges, 50,000 m2 realized since, Algeria

Hotel M’Zab (ex-Rostémides), 600 beds, Ghardaïa, Algerie

 

 

Several “metallic” houses, Ghazaouate, Algeria

Hotel Les Zianides, 300 beds, Tlemcem, Algeria

43 Villas from 1970 to 1984 in Algiers, Bir Mourad Raïs, Blida, Bouzareah, Draria (Algiers), El Achour, El Biar, Algiers, Kouba, Larbaa, Sahaoula, Sidi Aïch, Sidi Mohammed, Yakouren

 

1971

Furnishing of an apartment, place des Vosges, Paris, France

Theater for 3,600, Sidi Ferruch (surroundings of Algiers), Algeria

Tipaza Club (Algiers area), Algeria

Tourist complex, extension and horse-riding center, (Algiers area), Algeria

Tipasa Matarès (near Algiers), Algeria

Tourist complex, extension, (Algiers area), Algeria

Hotel les Hammadites, extension, Tichy, Algeria

Caravanserai El Gourara, extension, Timimoun, Algeria

 

1972

Tourist complex, extension, Moretti, Algeria

Village artisanal Plage Ouest: 150 shops and workshops, Sidi Ferruch, Algerie

Resort complex, extension Hotel Mazafran, Zeralda, Algeria

Hotel with 300 beds, Saida, Algeria

Thermal Spa, Hammam Rabbi (Saïda), Algeria

City of 200 apartments, Staoueli (near Algiers), Algeria

Villa des Arcades, transformation of stables into living room and dining room, El Madania, Algiers, Algeria

Technical Unit of SONATOUR, Algiers, Algeria

 

1973

Prototype “metallic” house, on the property of the president of the PUM (Products of Metallurgical Factories), Sologne, France

Caravanserai The Rym, extension, Beni-Abbes, Algeria

Caravanserai El Mehri, extension, Ouargla, Algeria

 

1974

Furnishings for a small manor, Chennevières / Marne, France

House of M and Mme V., Gueux, France

Five “metallic” houses, Jonchery / Vesle, France

House-witness of the concept “HOME” (metal house), Val-de-Vesle-Thuisy, France

A “metallic” house, Saint-Brice-Courcelles, France

Residence Lion d’Or, place Drouet d’Erlon, housing, cinema, shopping mall, Reims, France

Galerie du Jardin de Flore, 24 place des Vosges, creation of a flower shop in art gallery, for the publishing company created by Fernand Pouillon, Paris, France

Apartment rue des Fontaines, Algiers, Algeria

Cabaret Dar El Alia, Bouzareah (Algiers), Algeria

Housing development of “metallic” houses, Cheraga, Algeria

Caravanserai El Boustan, extension, El Golea, Algeria

Caravanserai, extension, El Oued, Algeria

Hotel El Djanoub, 600 beds, Ghardaïa, Algeria

Villa Paradou for the Ministry of Higher Education, Hydra (Algiers), Algeria

Expansion and development of the port, 200 ships of 10 m, La Madrague (near Algiers), Algeria

Development of the port, 400 boats, Sidi Ferruch (Algiers area), Algeria

West Beach Hotel, Sidi Ferruch (surroundings of Algiers), Algeria

West Beach second hotel, in all 1500 beds, West Beach Civic Center of Animation, Sidi Ferruch (surroundings of Algiers), Algeria

Harbor development, 200 boats of 10 meters Hotel with 152 rooms, Skikda, Algeria

 

1975

Restoration of a house, Peyrusse-le-Roc, France

Offices of Technal International, Toulouse, France

Cité Universitaire for Young Girls, Ben Aknoun, Algeria

Horse-riding center, multi-purpose hall, Tipaza, Algeria

Shopping and leisure center, Tipaza Plage, Algeria

Amraoua Hotel, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria

Tourist complex, extension, multi-purpose hall and facilities, Zeralda, Algeria

Wilaya (prefecture), landscaping, Tlemcem, Albgerie

Château de Belcastel, restoration (from 1975 to 1983), Belcastel, France

 

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1976

Monastery for the sisters of Médéa (Algeria) repatriated to Provence, Cotignac, France

Hotel Plaza, Annaba, Algeria

 

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Hotel Aurassi, furnishing and decoration, Oued Koreiche (Alger), Algeria

Villa Marguerite, Tlemcem, Algeria

 

1977

Aménagement du port et extension du centre ville, Saint-Tropez, France

Hôtel, Djemila, Algerie

Cité universitaire, Oran, Algerie

 

1977-1980

Port development and extension of the city center, Saint-Tropez, France

Hotel, Djemila, Algeria

Cité universitaire, Oran, Algeria

 

1978

Villas Rochmeboisson, Ain Benian (Algiers), Algeria

Villa Citroën, Algiers, Algeria

University campus, extension, Ben Aknoun (Algiers), Algeria

Hotel, 600-bed hotel, Constantine, Algeria

Wilaya (prefecture), two projects, Tlemcem, Algeria

Wilaya (prefecture), 3rd project, Tlemcem, Algeria

 

1979

Cité Universitaire, Ain El Bey (Constantine), Algerie

 

1979-1982

Cité Universitaire, Ain El Bey (Constantine), Algerie

400 dwellings, Sétif, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 3,000, Alger, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 5,000, Bab Ezzouar (Alger), Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,000, Batna, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,500, Constantine, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,000, Mostaganem, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,000, Oran, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,000, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algerie

 

1980

House F, Belcastel, France

Map of the new town, competition, Saint-Quentin-en-Yveline, France

City of 400 dwellings, Boufarik, Algeria

Bus station 40,000 m2, Constantine, Algeria

Spa, extension, Hammam Rabbi (Saïda), Algeria

Post Office, Touggourt, Algerie

 

1981

Hotel El Djazaïr (formerly Saint-Georges), resumption and continuation of works, Algiers, Algeria

 

1982

House extension project, Eschentzwiller, France

Hotel El Djazaïr (ex Saint-Georges), extension, Algiers, Algeria

City of 400 dwellings, Blida, Algeria

Boulevard belt interior, layout plan, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algerie

 

The Hotel El-Djazaïr was completed in record time to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Algerian independence but the government never paid the fees, causing Pouillon to default on, in turn, social security contributions, taxes, and then wages. Pouillon abandoned Algeria and returned to France where he was reinstated to the Order of Architects but the tax debt of the CNL was still outstanding. President Mitterrand forgave Pouillon the CNL debt and made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1984.

 

1984

Computing Center for the Ministry of Culture, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France

 

1985

Thirty detached houses on an air base, Avord, France

Masterplan for 4,000 housing units, Créteil, France

Europarc activity zone plan, two buildings realized in collaboration with Schott firm), Créteil, France

Music Conservatory, rue Armand Carrel, 19th arrondissement

Social housing 172 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 19th arrondissement

Apartment rue de Bièvre, development and extension, 5th arrondissement

Apartment rue Boissy d’Anglas, development and extension, 8th arrondissement

 

Undated

Development of an abbey in a secondary residence, Belhomert-Guehouville, Algerie

Building for SNECMA, Corbeil, France

A swimming pool in the rock by the sea for M and Mme B., Normandy, France

Avenue Montaigne, private apartment, Paris, France

Georges V, Georges V Avenue, after 1970 Private apartment, rue Surcouf, Paris, France

Restoration of Manoir du Jonchet, Romilly / Aigre, France

Studies for an unidentified program, Monaco, France

Villas “Les Jardins Exotiques”, Monte-Carlo, France

Maxim’s Restaurant, Montreal, Canada

Maxim’s Restaurant, after 1965, Tokyo, Japan

Apartment rue Didouche Mourad, Algiers, Algeria

Hotel, Biskra, Algeria

New Hotel, 600 beds, Constantine, France

Hotel, 150 rooms, Djanet, Algeria

Bordj of the Chevalier family, extension, El Biar (Algiers), Algeria

Caravanserai, Hotel du Souf, El Oued, Algeria

Hotel El Mordjane, La Calle (El Kala), Algeria

Apartment hotel of 1,000 beds, La Calle (El Kala), Algeria

Depot garage, communal Market Cinema Theater, Laghouat, France

Caravanserai, Madakh, Algeria

Villas, Sahaoula, Algeria

La Grande Plage Resort (Sidi Begra), Seraïdi, Algeria

Hotel du Port, Seraïdi, Algeria

Hotel El Marsa Olympic Swimming Pool Quartier du Corsaire Restaurant, Seraïdi, Algeria

 

The fernandpouillon.com website lists the creation or extension of “co-operative cells” [“caves coopèratives”] around this time, in the towns of Rosières, Lussas, Vinezac, Vogue, Lablachère, Senas, Graveson, Maillane, Eygalières, Mallemort, Saint-Andiol, Châteauneuf de Gadagne, Le Thor, La Tour d’Aygues, and Sablet. All were formed in association with Pouillon’s former mentor Henri Enjouvin. I imagine these to be something like architects of record on-call, and with some fee arrangement already in place for fast turnaround. It would have to be because, as you will see, the amount of work attributed to Pouillon is phenomenal. Pouillon was beyond prolific, he had a compulsion to design buildings and get them built.

 

1938

Mondovi Building (18 apartments), rue de Mondovi, Marseille, France

 

 

Villa for Doctor Bernard, quartier Saint-Julien Villa de M. Magallon, avenue Flotte, Marseille, France

Villa for M. Teissier, quartier Saint-Barnabé Villa de M. Terracole, au Roucas Blanc, Marseille, France

Villa for M. Falconetti, Cabriès, France

 

1939

Group “Résidence” quai de Rive-Neuve (36 apartments), Marseille, France

 

1940

A group of 70 apartments, Avignon, France

 

1942 was the end of Vichy Government rule in Algeria and the end of Le Corbusier’s speculative Plan Obus for Algiers. It was also the year Pouillon, now 30, became a registered architect. Previously, it had not been necessary to be one in order to build.

 

1943

Restoration of private mansion of M. Columeau, bd du Redon Immeuble 38 rue Longue des Capucins, Marseille, France

 

1944 was the liberation of France and the dissolution of the Vichy government.

 

1945

“Dames de France”, transformation of a store into offices for the American base

Grand Arénas, provisional accommodation for prisoners, deportees and refugees

Gendarmerie Augusto, Marseille, France

 

1946

The Regional Center for Physical Education and Sport, CREPS, chemin du Guiraudet Gardanne, Aix-en-Provence, France

Casablanca Garden City in Biver, 21 dwellings, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

1947

Deux écoles déclarées dans les “Mémoires d’un architecte”, Aix-en-Provence, France

Hotel in Cap Manuel, Dakar, Senegal

Stade municipal, avenue des Ecoles Militaires, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

Pouillon’s 1947 Aix-en-Provence City Stadium is often presented as the project in which his personal “style” began to emerge but (in perfect illustration of how words convert buildings into architecture) this turns out to be nothing more than perfectly normal things that everybody should be doing, like updating traditional construction processes and using several different materials so each does what they do best.

 

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1948

Nestlé Factory, chocolate and soluble coffee factory, offices, common services and employee housing, Saint-Menet, France

Restoration of the Villa of Doctor Latil, Aix-en-Provence, France

Station sanitaire maritime, Avenue Vaudoyer, Marseille, France

 

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1949

Police Building, 2 rue Antoine Becker, Marseille, France

Canebière Building, boulevard de la Canebière, apartments, offices, retail units, Marseille, France

La Tourette, Protis Square, 260 dwellings, shops garages, Marseille, France

 

The civic projects increased in scale and importance, leading to the 1948-1953 La Tourette housing complex in Marseille, just behind the Old Port. There’s a glowing description of La Tourette here, along with many fine photographs of it.

 

 

With La Tourette project, Pouillon refined his system of co-ordinating all the elements of a project – a system that came to be known as The Pouillon System. Details are sketchy, but it included artists and craftsmen such as cabinetmakers, locksmiths and stonecutters and the invention/use of construction processes intended to reduce the cost of material and labour. One of these was pierre banchée in which stone tiles are used as permanent shuttering.

 

 

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Other innovations included a method of providing better soundproofing between apartments. A legend to the section above might be able to tell us more about this. In 1955, Pouillon created the CNL, the Comptoir National du Logement, which was a commercial and legal structure that would allow him to design thousands of housing units in Paris and to build them as a developer.

 

1950

Reconstruction of the Sablettes, seaside resort, 150 apartments, shops, a hotel, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France

Carrières de Fontvieille, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France

Offices, Garden Dwellings, Atelier, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France

Atelier for the painter, Marchutz, Aix-en-Provence, France

Villa for the mayor of d’Aix-en-Provence, Henri Mouret, Aix-en-Provence, France

Hôtel d’Espagnet, Cours Mirabeau, Headquarters of the University Rectorate plus official housing, Aix-en-Provence, France

Restoration of a listed monument, Aix-en-Provence, France

Saint-Charles University Library, Marseille, France

Library of the Faculty of Sciences, Centre for Administrative Studies, Marseille, France

 

1951

Building rue Méry, Reconstruction of the Vieux-Port quarter, housing, shops and bars, Marseille, France

Outer areas of the Old Port district, monument surroundings, roads and public spaces, Marseille, France

Shopping Cart District Urban Redevelopment, Marseille, France

Two hundred apartments, 1-6 room apartments for rent, Aix-en-Provence, France

Reconstruction of the Old Port, seafront 1200 m, 350 apartments and shops, Marseille, France

 

1952

Faculty of Law, resumption of the works for completion of University Library, Aix-en-Provence, France

Villa La Brillanne, residence of the family of Fernand Pouillon, Aix-en-Provence, France

Lycée Colbert, commercial and industrial learning center, Marseille, France

 

1953

Atelier for the painter André Masson, Aix-en-Provence, France

Administrative City, architectural and urban development program, Avignon, France

Terminal, offices, technical block, control tower, Cassis, Marignane, France

Villa Barthélemy and Villa X., seafront villas, Algiers, Algeria

Diar El Mahçoul, 1800 apartments, Algiers, Algeria

 

This last was Pouillon’s first project in Algeirs and the project he was invited there for. The hillside site required 100,000 of terracing and huge retaining walls. A main road divided the French side and Algerian side. Two thirds of the 1,454 housing units were on the French side of the road with views of the sea (and huge retaining walls).

 

 

The other third were on the Algerian side facing the valley and had small courtyards. We may think this discriminatory but we forget that “view” is a cultural invention (whereas houses in a Mediterranean fishing village, for example, might have a view of the sea for reasons connected with weather and fish). Another such difference showed in sanitation facilities and, again, we can’t say if this is cultural prejudice or cultural preference.

 

1953 (cont’d)

Diar Es Saada, 800 lodgings, Algiers, Algeria

Villa des Arcades, restaurant, and development of a swimming pool, residence and agency of F. Alger, Algerie

Residential building, regularization of the extension of the course Jean Jaurès in front of the administrative city, Avignon, France

 

1954

Diar El Mahçoul, Saint-Jean-Baptiste church Climat of France, 3500 dwellings, Algiers, Algiers

 

Pouillon’s 1954-1957 Climat de France project for Algiers has a touch of what two decades later would be called Post-Modern Classicism. We look at it and see Rossi, unfairly.

 

 

The Mayor of Algiers believed a properly housed population made for a happy population and Pouillon obliged by combining the social aspirations of Modernism giving residents something larger to feel a part of, and the proto Post-Modern idea of giving residents something grander to live up to.

 

 

Diar Es Saada, girls ‘and boys’ schools, Algiers, Algierie

El Karma, Valmy (near Oran), Agierie

City of 800 houses, Algiers, Algierie

Cité Lescure, Designed for a colleague, Oran, Algiers

Military city for 8000 inhabitants, Magharé, Iran

Military city for 8000 inhabitants, Shahabad, Iran

Iranian Empire Headquarters, Tehran, Iran

Geographical Institute, Tehran, Iran

Railway station, Machad, Iran

 

This was a project in collaboration with the Iranian architect, Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou.

 

 

Railway station, Tabriz, Iran

 

As was this.

 

 

1955

Cité universitaire les Gazelles, 564 avenue Gaston Berger, 500 beds, Aix-en-Provence, France

La Montagnette social housing, rue Maurice Barrès, Vignon, France

Cité La Croix des Oiseaux, about 800 social housing units with much prefabrication, rue de la Croix des Oiseaux, Avignon, France

Villa for Admiral Jubelin, Sanary, France

 

1956

Development of the Old Port district, partially completed. Reconstruction of several Old Port buildings, reconstruction, Bastia, France

 

1957

Charzola Building, 58 rue Emile Zola, 93 dwellings, Paris, France

47 avenue de Friedland, apartment for Fernand Pouillon, Paris, France

Victor Hugo Residences, avenue Jean Lolive, 282 apartments and retail units, Pantin, France

 

 

Chalet, Val d’Isere, France

Municipal stadium, rue des Ecoles Militaires, awning above the stands (destroyed in the eighties), Aix-en-Provence, France

Résidence le Parc, 2,635 lodgings, shopping centers, Meudon-la-Forêt, France

 

Pouillon and the CNL’s first major successes were apartment developments of three hundred units in Pantin (1957) and five hundred units in Montrouge (1958). Despite the stone and marbile finishes, the apartments were affordable on a 25-year plan.

 

1958

Private apartment, Boulevard Suchet, Paris, France

Le Point du Jour, 2260 logements et équipements, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Peugeot-quai de Passy, projet d’extension du Point du Jour, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Résidence du Stade Buffalo, 466 logements et commerces, Montrouge, France

 

 

1959

Hôtel des Ursins, île de la Cité, résidence de F. Pouillon Appartement de M. Junot Iéna, Paris, France

Résidence Jules Ferry, 60 logements et garages au rez-de-chaussée, Montrouge, France

Résidence le Parc, 2,635 lodgings, shopping centers, Meudon-la-Forêt, France

 

Pouillon was to make himself many enemies when the 2,635 apartments of the Résidence du Parc in Meudon-la-Forêt (1959) came online at less than market prices.

 

 

1960

Résidence du Quai, 135 apartments and shopping mall, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Hôtel-restaurant Baumanière, la Cabro d’Or, Les Baux de Provence, France

 

1961

Hotel, Puerto-Rico

 

Pouillon’s unorthodox corporate arrangements encouraged financial impropriety and the CNL was unable to pay its contractors in 1959 and was wound up in 1961 and Pouillon charged, arrested, de-registered and jailed. Eighteen months later he escaped but ten months later gave himself up, only to be sentenced to another four years. This was later reduced to three and he was released in February 1964. Charges of breaching the laws of companies, of breaches of trust, fraud and concealment were dismissed but charges of the abuse of social assets, false declaration of release of shares and false notarial declaration remained. During his imprisonment, we was to write Les Pierres Sauvages published in 1964, and Memoirs of an Architect, published 1968.

 

 

1962

Domaine de Lanruen (detached houses), partially realized, construction site not monitored, Erquy, France

 

1964

Masterplan for the new town of Créteil, Créteil, France

La Vallée Moussue, restoration of a house, Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, France.

 

1965

Hôtel du Port, for the company Bancaire, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France

 

The masterplan was to be Pouillon’s first major job after jail and, perhaps because of this, he received death threats urging him not to work in France. Jacques Chevallier suggested Pouiloon return to Algeria and he did. For the next twenty years Pouillon was to design hotels to improve the tourism infrastructure of Algeria, as well as many civic and educational buildings. His greatest regret was never being being asked to design mass housing again, either in France or in Algeria.

 

1966

Algerian coastal tourism development plan (partially realized), Algiers, Algeria

Villa des Arcades, restoration and extension, Algiers, Algeria

Diar El Mahçoul, transformation of the church into a mosque, Algiers, Algeria

Hotel Le Caîd, 400 beds, Bou Saada, Algeria

Hotel Marhaba, 300 beds, Laghouat, Algeria

Hotel El Minzah, 300 beds, Moretti, Algeria

Spa and hotel with 200 beds, Saida, Algeria

 

1967

Pavillon de la Foire d’Alger, Algiers, Algeria

The Calle (El Kala), Algiers, Algeria

Hotel El Manar, 300 beds, Algiers, Algeria

Tourist complex, 3,000 beds, Moretti, Algeria

Hotel El Mountazah (Ksar du Rocher), 300 beds, Seraïdi, Algeria

Tourist complex, 4,000 beds, Zeralda, Algeria

 

1968

Restaurant “Maxim’s, air conditioning and facilities, Paris, France

Caravanserai of 150 beds, Ain Sefr, Algeria

Hotel Plaza, 500 beds, Annaba, Algeria

Caravanserai the Rym, 150 beds, Beni-Abbes, Algeria

Hotel with 300 beds, Biskra, Algeria

Hotel school for 1,600 students, Biskra, Algeria

Caravanserai El Boustan, 200 beds Saharan dwellings (detached houses), Biskra, Algeria

Saharan homes (detached houses), Biskra, Algeria

New market and renovation of old market, cinema, theater, 15,000 m2, Biskra, Algeria

Abattoirs, Biskra, Ghardaïa, Algerie

Saharan homes (detached houses), Laghouat, Algeria

Caravanserai El Mehri, 200 beds, Ouargla, Algeria

Prefecture of the Oasis and Administrative City, 15 000 m2 Saharan dwellings (detached houses), Ouargla, Algeria

Tourist complex, 4,000 beds El Riadh Hotel, Sidi Ferruch, Algeria

 

 

Tourist complex, shopping center Hôtel les Hammadites, 350 beds, Tichy, Algerie

Caravanserai El Gourara, 150 beds, Timimoun, Algeria

 

 

Tourist complex, 2,000 beds, Tipasa Beach, Algeria

 

 

Tourist complex, 2,500 beds Arrangement of the harbor, village and barbecue, Tipasa Club, Algeria

Slaughterhouses, Touggourt, Algerie

Caravanserai L’Oasis, 200 beds, Touggourt, Algeria

Saharan homes (detached houses), Touggourt, Algeria

Hotel Les Sables d’Or, 600 beds, Zeralda, Algeria

Hotel with 300 beds, Tamanrasset, Algeria

 

1969

Prototype “metal house” at the edge of J. Chevallier, El Ançor, Algeria

Andalusian tourist complex of 2,000 beds, Algiers, Algeria

Hotel with 600 beds, Tipasa Matarès, Algeria

Hotel school for 1600 students, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria

 

1970

La Breche aux Loups, 444 detached houses, commercialization, Ozoir-la-Ferrière, France

27 post offices, sorting centers and telephone exchanges, 50,000 m2 realized since, Algeria

Hotel M’Zab (ex-Rostémides), 600 beds, Ghardaïa, Algerie

 

 

Several “metallic” houses, Ghazaouate, Algeria

Hotel Les Zianides, 300 beds, Tlemcem, Algeria

43 Villas from 1970 to 1984 in Algiers, Bir Mourad Raïs, Blida, Bouzareah, Draria (Algiers), El Achour, El Biar, Algiers, Kouba, Larbaa, Sahaoula, Sidi Aïch, Sidi Mohammed, Yakouren

 

1971

Furnishing of an apartment, place des Vosges, Paris, France

Theater for 3,600, Sidi Ferruch (surroundings of Algiers), Algeria

Tipaza Club (Algiers area), Algeria

Tourist complex, extension and horse-riding center, (Algiers area), Algeria

Tipasa Matarès (near Algiers), Algeria

Tourist complex, extension, (Algiers area), Algeria

Hotel les Hammadites, extension, Tichy, Algeria

Caravanserai El Gourara, extension, Timimoun, Algeria

 

1972

Tourist complex, extension, Moretti, Algeria

Village artisanal Plage Ouest: 150 shops and workshops, Sidi Ferruch, Algerie

Resort complex, extension Hotel Mazafran, Zeralda, Algeria

Hotel with 300 beds, Saida, Algeria

Thermal Spa, Hammam Rabbi (Saïda), Algeria

City of 200 apartments, Staoueli (near Algiers), Algeria

Villa des Arcades, transformation of stables into living room and dining room, El Madania, Algiers, Algeria

Technical Unit of SONATOUR, Algiers, Algeria

 

1973

Prototype “metallic” house, on the property of the president of the PUM (Products of Metallurgical Factories), Sologne, France

Caravanserai The Rym, extension, Beni-Abbes, Algeria

Caravanserai El Mehri, extension, Ouargla, Algeria

 

1974

Furnishings for a small manor, Chennevières / Marne, France

House of M and Mme V., Gueux, France

Five “metallic” houses, Jonchery / Vesle, France

House-witness of the concept “HOME” (metal house), Val-de-Vesle-Thuisy, France

A “metallic” house, Saint-Brice-Courcelles, France

Residence Lion d’Or, place Drouet d’Erlon, housing, cinema, shopping mall, Reims, France

Galerie du Jardin de Flore, 24 place des Vosges, creation of a flower shop in art gallery, for the publishing company created by Fernand Pouillon, Paris, France

Apartment rue des Fontaines, Algiers, Algeria

Cabaret Dar El Alia, Bouzareah (Algiers), Algeria

Housing development of “metallic” houses, Cheraga, Algeria

Caravanserai El Boustan, extension, El Golea, Algeria

Caravanserai, extension, El Oued, Algeria

Hotel El Djanoub, 600 beds, Ghardaïa, Algeria

Villa Paradou for the Ministry of Higher Education, Hydra (Algiers), Algeria

Expansion and development of the port, 200 ships of 10 m, La Madrague (near Algiers), Algeria

Development of the port, 400 boats, Sidi Ferruch (Algiers area), Algeria

West Beach Hotel, Sidi Ferruch (surroundings of Algiers), Algeria

West Beach second hotel, in all 1500 beds, West Beach Civic Center of Animation, Sidi Ferruch (surroundings of Algiers), Algeria

Harbor development, 200 boats of 10 meters Hotel with 152 rooms, Skikda, Algeria

 

1975

Restoration of a house, Peyrusse-le-Roc, France

Offices of Technal International, Toulouse, France

Cité Universitaire for Young Girls, Ben Aknoun, Algeria

Horse-riding center, multi-purpose hall, Tipaza, Algeria

Shopping and leisure center, Tipaza Plage, Algeria

Amraoua Hotel, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria

Tourist complex, extension, multi-purpose hall and facilities, Zeralda, Algeria

Wilaya (prefecture), landscaping, Tlemcem, Albgerie

Château de Belcastel, restoration (from 1975 to 1983), Belcastel, France

 

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1976

Monastery for the sisters of Médéa (Algeria) repatriated to Provence, Cotignac, France

Hotel Plaza, Annaba, Algeria

 

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Hotel Aurassi, furnishing and decoration, Oued Koreiche (Alger), Algeria

Villa Marguerite, Tlemcem, Algeria

 

1977

Aménagement du port et extension du centre ville, Saint-Tropez, France

Hôtel, Djemila, Algerie

Cité universitaire, Oran, Algerie

 

1977-1980

Port development and extension of the city center, Saint-Tropez, France

Hotel, Djemila, Algeria

Cité universitaire, Oran, Algeria

 

1978

Villas Rochmeboisson, Ain Benian (Algiers), Algeria

Villa Citroën, Algiers, Algeria

University campus, extension, Ben Aknoun (Algiers), Algeria

Hotel, 600-bed hotel, Constantine, Algeria

Wilaya (prefecture), two projects, Tlemcem, Algeria

Wilaya (prefecture), 3rd project, Tlemcem, Algeria

 

1979

Cité Universitaire, Ain El Bey (Constantine), Algerie

 

1979-1982

Cité Universitaire, Ain El Bey (Constantine), Algerie

400 dwellings, Sétif, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 3,000, Alger, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 5,000, Bab Ezzouar (Alger), Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,000, Batna, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,500, Constantine, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,000, Mostaganem, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,000, Oran, Algerie

Cité Universitaire for 2,000, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algerie

 

1980

House F, Belcastel, France

Map of the new town, competition, Saint-Quentin-en-Yveline, France

City of 400 dwellings, Boufarik, Algeria

Bus station 40,000 m2, Constantine, Algeria

Spa, extension, Hammam Rabbi (Saïda), Algeria

Post Office, Touggourt, Algerie

 

1981

Hotel El Djazaïr (formerly Saint-Georges), resumption and continuation of works, Algiers, Algeria

 

1982

House extension project, Eschentzwiller, France

Hotel El Djazaïr (ex Saint-Georges), extension, Algiers, Algeria

City of 400 dwellings, Blida, Algeria

Boulevard belt interior, layout plan, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algerie

 

The Hotel El-Djazaïr was completed in record time to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Algerian independence but the government never paid the fees, causing Pouillon to default on, in turn, social security contributions, taxes, and then wages. Pouillon abandoned Algeria and returned to France where he was reinstated to the Order of Architects but the tax debt of the CNL was still outstanding. President Mitterrand forgave Pouillon the CNL debt and made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1984.

 

1984

Computing Center for the Ministry of Culture, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France

 

1985

Thirty detached houses on an air base, Avord, France

Masterplan for 4,000 housing units, Créteil, France

Europarc activity zone plan, two buildings realized in collaboration with Schott firm), Créteil, France

Music Conservatory, rue Armand Carrel, 19th arrondissement

Social housing 172 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 19th arrondissement

Apartment rue de Bièvre, development and extension, 5th arrondissement

Apartment rue Boissy d’Anglas, development and extension, 8th arrondissement

 

Undated:

Development of an abbey in a secondary residence, Belhomert-Guehouville, Algerie

Building for SNECMA, Corbeil, France

A swimming pool in the rock by the sea for M and Mme B., Normandy, France

Avenue Montaigne, private apartment, Paris, France

Georges V, Georges V Avenue, after 1970 Private apartment, rue Surcouf, Paris, France

Restoration of Manoir du Jonchet, Romilly / Aigre, France

Studies for an unidentified program, Monaco, France

Villas “Les Jardins Exotiques”, Monte-Carlo, France

Maxim’s Restaurant, Montreal, Canada

Maxim’s Restaurant, after 1965, Tokyo, Japan

Apartment rue Didouche Mourad, Algiers, Algeria

Hotel, Biskra, Algeria

New Hotel, 600 beds, Constantine, France

Hotel, 150 rooms, Djanet, Algeria

Bordj of the Chevalier family, extension, El Biar (Algiers), Algeria

Caravanserai, Hotel du Souf, El Oued, Algeria

Hotel El Mordjane, La Calle (El Kala), Algeria

Apartment hotel of 1,000 beds, La Calle (El Kala), Algeria

Depot garage, communal Market Cinema Theater, Laghouat, France

Caravanserai, Madakh, Algeria

Villas, Sahaoula, Algeria

La Grande Plage Resort (Sidi Begra), Seraïdi, Algeria

Hotel du Port, Seraïdi, Algeria

Hotel El Marsa Olympic Swimming Pool Quartier du Corsaire Restaurant, Seraïdi, Algeria

 

 

Sidi Fredj / Sidi-Ferruch – Alger wilaya – Algeria / AlgÈrie: Hotel El Marsa and Hotel El Manar | HÙtels El Marsa et El Manar – photo by M.Torres

Holiday village, Sidi Okba Oumache, Skikda Aïn Ben Noui, Algeria

Complex: theater, bungalows, restaurant, port, Tipaza La Corne d’Or, Algeria

Hotel Esmeralda, Tipaza Plage, Algeria

Cité Universitaire, Tlemcem, Algeria

Complex of Courbet Marine, Zemmouri, Algeria

Administrative Center One Hotel, Zeralda, Algeria

Hotel La Residence, Zeralda, Algeria

Villas in Ain El Hammam, Ain Taya, Draa Esmar, El Biar (Algiers), In Nadjah, Hydra (Algiers), Kraicia

 

Unrealized

Additionally, there are approx. 800 unrealized projects in France alone.

 

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Seven possible reasons why Fernand Pouillon is not better remembered than he is.

His main period of activity as an architect was over the period 1932–1961 – a period corresponding to the heyday of Le Corbusier. Perhaps the world of architecture didn’t need another architect from France when they already had someone contributing so much to the mythology of architecture and architects.

Reconstruction and rehabilitation are both good things but both only restore and improve upon what was already present. They don’t add to the mythology of architecture in such a way as did Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitations that put Marseille on the map.

Or perhaps the world of architecture did not need anything else from Algeria, since it already had Le Corbusier’s Plan Obus which is vastly over-remembered, especially when compared with his earlier proposal for Algiers.

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The period 1956–1961 when the Algerian Uprising was changing into the Algerian War and Pouillon, like Chevalier, would have deen (rightly) suspected of having Algerian separatist sympathies. This period coincides with the time people would have been collecting evidence against Pouillon and making a case for his imprisonment.

Not only that, Pouillon was a member of the communist party until about 1943. After that, he would have been remembered as having been a member of the communist party until about 1943. The period 1947–1956 coincided with United States’ doctrine of McCarthyism that persecuted persons suspected of being either communists or of having communist sympathies. Fernand Pouillon may thus have suffered the same fate as Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige and André Lurçat. Architecture prefers fascist governments and their rallying monuments to communist ones and their dreary obsession with mass housing.

Pouillon was never stylistically experimental for the sake of it. If Brutalism had had construction advantages we would no doubt see more Pouillon buildings in concrete. He experimented with metallic housing and prefabrication in the seventies, long after it had been fashionable. His career also overlapped Post Modernism but he had no need for semiotics beyond indicating home and neighbourhood by conventional means. His sensibility towards reconstruction and restoration was also off-trend.

Pouillon is responsible for the design of an enormous number of buildings, many of which are regarded as fine or outstanding. The sheer volume of his output shows he was extremely skilled at promoting his services but that he is not remembered has a lot to do with him being more interested in building than in designing his mythology – a trait he shares with many of the other misfit architects.

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Fernand Pouillon!

 

Your service to the community began long before your imprisonment

and continued long after.

 

misfits salutes you!

 

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www.fernandpouillon.com is the most comprehensive resource there is. I’m indebted.

publishing.cdlib.org a substantial website on post-war housing in Algeria

www.jeanlucmichel.com is a blog (in French) with a fine collection of images of many otherwise unphotographed Fernand Pouillon buildings. The photographs are more photo-journalism than architectural photography and make you feel as if you had been there walking around looking at the buildings and taken the photographs yourself. The unstaged photographs are real and, because of that, informative and, because of that, refreshing.

www.bdonline.co.uk links to article about La Tourette inspiring the UK architect Adam Khan

Adam Caruso and Helen Thomas (Hg.): The Stones of Fernand Pouillon – An Alternative Modernism in French Architecture. gta Verlag, Zürich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85676-324-4.

 

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Pouillon’s infamous system for coordinating all construction activity may have had its flaws but it did produce high quality and affordable housing that, seventy years on, has aged well, is not dated, and is still eminently liveable. A system that could produce results of such high quality under budget and in record time goes is not a system geared towards stakeholders systematically milking the budget by inflating or falsifying invoices. It defies conventional thinking.

 

 

Exactly how Pouillon brought the 2,635 apartments of the 1959 Résidence du Parc in Meudon-la-Forêt (1959) online in record time and at less than market prices remains a mystery no-one seems to want to see solved.

 

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Cite this article as: Graham McKay, "Architecture Misfit #29: Fernand Pouillon," misfits' architecture, published on May 14, 2017, accessed on July 4, 2021, permalink: misfitsarchitecture.com/2017/05/14/architecture-misfit-29....

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