Jean Prouvé in the DAM Archives: Design for the Masses

Daniela Ortiz dos Santos

This course works at the intersection between postwar architecture, archival records and the institutional history of the DAM.

It uses the papers by French designer Jean Prouvé (1901-1984), Greek-French architect George Candilis (1913-1995) and German architect Diwi Dreysse (1937), which are preserved in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) as a point of departure for discussions. This research seminar is the result of a cooperation in the DAM.

Program

24.04.24 – Introduction

08.05.24 – Prouvé and the post-war reconstruction in France

15.05.24 – Re-positioning modern architecture historiography

22.05.24 – Technology a Fetish

29.05.24 – A Proposition to visit to Vitra Museum in Weil am Rhein

05.06.24 – Session in the DAM. A tour to the archives and a conversation with Wolfgang Welker, Anne Scheinhardt, Paula Argomedo Ruiz de Velasco and Marie-Sophie Henke

12.06.24 – Session in the DAM. Encountering Prouvé-Candilist-Dreysse’s Files in the DAM archives

19.06.24 – Session in the DAM. Encountering Prouvé-Candilist-Dreysse’s Files in the DAM archives

26.06.24 – Session in the DAM. Encountering Prouvé-Candilist-Dreysse’s Files in the DAM archives

03.07.24 – Session in the DAM. A conversation with Oliver Elser and Birte Lebzien on Heinirch Klotz and the institutional history of the DAM

10.07.24 – Conclusion

Image: Sketches a resort village project using pre-fabricated elements, circa 1970s, Prouvé-Candilis-Dreysse Papers, DAM Archives, Frankfurt.