Jean Prouve' e l'esperienza dell'architettura come prodotto industriale

Among the many recent testimonies on the figure of Jean Prouvé, the last in order of time, the room of the French pavilion entitled "Imagination constructive or utopia?" at the Venice Biennale "Absorbing Modernity" (2014), has shown, as archaeological finds, a series of lightweight facade panels, testimonies of the ambition of the 'French tinsmith' to unite art, architecture and industry and of its failure, at least in the field of prefabricated building. Also in the field of furnishing products, the collections of the most important companies, have considered to ‘re-edit’ objects and furniture designed by Prouvé, showing the ability of formal and productive premonition of his approach to the very idea of industry. Starting with 'heroic' figure of Jean Prouvé and his dramatic biography, the contribution calls for a reflection on a possible renewal of the technological culture of the design, and is an opportunity to restore both natural connections, as necessary between the domains of ' architecture and design, less rigid in nowdasy society, in which the same thought 'industrial' is quite different from that of originary modernity. Books published in this series are peer-reviewed.The Built Environment Technologies and Healthy Architectures series investigates the theoretical, methodological, and operational issues related to the effects of technological innovation into the design and management of quality of the built environment, in its various scales of intervention. The series aims to focus the inter and trans-disciplinary connections required to build up the living space as habitat in which interact proactively ecological, social, technical and economic components. Through a holistic and multi-scalar vision of living space, as a complex organism that can respond in a co-evolutionary manner to the individual and community needs, the built environment technologies are reinterpreted as relational and interfacing systems able to improve the liveability, vitality, and in-clusiveness of the human habitat and to support health and bio-psycho-socio-physical abilities of its inhabitants.