André Lurçat
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André Lurçat (1894 - 1970) was a French modernist architect, landscape architect, furniture designer and city planner, a founding member of CIAM, and active in the rebuilding in French cities after World War II.
Lurçat studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, 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. He 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.
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 in 1933. He's also known for his planned postwar reconstruction of the French city of Maubeuge.
He was the brother of visual artist Jean Lurçat.
