Fernand Pouillon

Fernand Pouillon ( born May 14, 1912 in Cancon, † July 24, 1986 in Belcastel ) was a French architect and writer.

Biography

Fernand Pouillon was born in 1912 in Cancon, the son of a civil engineer. First, he wanted to become a painter and studied from 1929 at the École des Beaux Arts in Marseille. From 1932 to 1934 he studied architecture in Paris. In 1936 he constructed in Aix -en- Provence his first property. In 1942 he received his degree in architecture. Until 1944 he carried out under the direction of Eugène Beaudouin ( 1898-1983 ) Works for the city of Marseille.

From 1944 to 1953 Pouillon is involved with his partner René Egger active in the reconstruction of the old port district of Marseille. From 1944 to 1947 he is a member of the Communist Party. In the fifties, he works on many public buildings in Aix -en- Provence and Marseille.

In 1961 he was arrested in the wake of a financial scandal, convicted and spent four years in prison. In prison he wrote the novel in 1964 Singing Stones (Orig.: Les pierres sauvages ), a diary novel about the building of the Cistercian monastery of Le Thoronet from the perspective of the architect William Baltz.

The years 1966-1972 he spent in voluntary exile in Algeria, where he is working on the realization of many buildings. In 1968 he published under the original title " Memoires d'un architecte " his memoirs.

In 1971 he was pardoned by Georges Pompidou. After his rehabilitation, he was elected in 1980 in the Council of the Parisian architect Association ( Ordre des Architectes de Paris). In 1986 he died at the age of 74 years in his Château de Belcastel at Rignac.

Writings

• Fernand Pouillon: Singing Stones. The records of William Balz ( " Les sauvages pierre ", 1989). Edition tertium, Ostfildern 1999, ISBN 3-930717-31- X.