DOI issue:
No. 309 (December 1918)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24600#0102
Studio- Talk
a view to securing the
most suitable designs of
rural habitations to replace
those destroyed through
the operations of war.
As a preliminary to the
opening of these competi-
tions the Society, with the
approval and co-operation
of the Under - Secretary
of State for Fine Arts,
decided to organize an ex-
hibition of documents rela -
five to the architecture of
, . the invaded territory.
houses at rancourt (meuse) j
delay. The task is a stupendous one, for the This exhibition, held in the galleries of MM.
area involved comprises' no less than thirteen Goupil et Cie early in 1917, created wide-
departments, and among them what were the spread interest. It consisted of a large number
most prosperous industrial regions of France, of drawings, paintings, and prints, admirably
contributing a large proportion of the national arranged to show the various kinds of dwelling
revenue. Throughout this territory tens of inhabited by the peasant, the artisan, and the
thousands of dwelling-houses have disappeared small farmer in the regions extending from
completely ; of hundreds of villages and towns Flanders to the Vosges. The collection demon-
there is scarcely a trace left, while others are so strated in a most striking manner the existence
battered as to be hardly recognizable. of certain peculiarities differentiating the
- domestic architecture of one province from that
Vast as it is, however, this problem of re- of another. These peculiarities were touched
construction has by no means dismayed the upon at some length in a very interesting address
architects and others upon whom the struc- delivered by Monsieur Paul Leon, chief of the
tural rehabilitation of the devastated area architectural department of the Sous-Secre-
will devolve. Long before the tide of battle tariat, who, taking one district after another,
turned definitely in favour of the free described how the atmospheric and other condi-
nations, and the hordes of the modern Attila tions, physical and economic, in each have re-
began to yield to the
strategic genius of Mar-
shal Foch, the prelimin-
ary steps were taken to-
wards solving the problem
of rehabilitation. As far
back as 1915 the Societe
des Architectes diplomes
par le Gouvernement, re-
sponding whole-heartedly
to an appeal made
by Monsieur L. Re vault,
Deputy for the Meuse,
set to work, and through
a committee appointed
for the purpose began to
make arrangements for
competitions among the
architects of France with houses at chiminon (marne) drawing by andre. ventre
92
a view to securing the
most suitable designs of
rural habitations to replace
those destroyed through
the operations of war.
As a preliminary to the
opening of these competi-
tions the Society, with the
approval and co-operation
of the Under - Secretary
of State for Fine Arts,
decided to organize an ex-
hibition of documents rela -
five to the architecture of
, . the invaded territory.
houses at rancourt (meuse) j
delay. The task is a stupendous one, for the This exhibition, held in the galleries of MM.
area involved comprises' no less than thirteen Goupil et Cie early in 1917, created wide-
departments, and among them what were the spread interest. It consisted of a large number
most prosperous industrial regions of France, of drawings, paintings, and prints, admirably
contributing a large proportion of the national arranged to show the various kinds of dwelling
revenue. Throughout this territory tens of inhabited by the peasant, the artisan, and the
thousands of dwelling-houses have disappeared small farmer in the regions extending from
completely ; of hundreds of villages and towns Flanders to the Vosges. The collection demon-
there is scarcely a trace left, while others are so strated in a most striking manner the existence
battered as to be hardly recognizable. of certain peculiarities differentiating the
- domestic architecture of one province from that
Vast as it is, however, this problem of re- of another. These peculiarities were touched
construction has by no means dismayed the upon at some length in a very interesting address
architects and others upon whom the struc- delivered by Monsieur Paul Leon, chief of the
tural rehabilitation of the devastated area architectural department of the Sous-Secre-
will devolve. Long before the tide of battle tariat, who, taking one district after another,
turned definitely in favour of the free described how the atmospheric and other condi-
nations, and the hordes of the modern Attila tions, physical and economic, in each have re-
began to yield to the
strategic genius of Mar-
shal Foch, the prelimin-
ary steps were taken to-
wards solving the problem
of rehabilitation. As far
back as 1915 the Societe
des Architectes diplomes
par le Gouvernement, re-
sponding whole-heartedly
to an appeal made
by Monsieur L. Re vault,
Deputy for the Meuse,
set to work, and through
a committee appointed
for the purpose began to
make arrangements for
competitions among the
architects of France with houses at chiminon (marne) drawing by andre. ventre
92