Fernand Pouillon

Fernand Pouillon, born May 14, 1912 in Cancon in the Lot-et-Garonne, was one of the great builders of the years of reconstruction after the Second World War in France. He spent his youth in Marseilles where he attended the School of Fine Arts before continuing from 1932 to 1934 studying architecture in Paris. He built his first building at the age of twenty-two in 1934 in Aix-en-Provence. Fernand Pouillon undertakes an ambitious bet in Aix-en-Provence: 200 housing units to be built in 200 days for a budget of 200 million francs. Using stone and economical but quality plans, Pouillon won his bet. In 1953, he renewed this kind of performance by creating the complex of buildings in Diar-el-Mahçoul in Algiers: 1,600 housing units built in 365 days in perfect respect for the local architectural style and above all for the notion of urban space. . In Algiers will follow the ensembles of Diar-es-Saada and Climat de France. In 1961, while some of the most important large complexes on the outskirts of Paris, in Montrouge, in the Point-du-Jour district in Boulogne-Billancourt as well as the new town of Meudon-la- Forest, he is at the heart of a resounding legal case following the revelation that he is also a shareholder in peripheral companies of the CNL by means of nominees. Indeed, an architect does not have the right to be neither a promoter, nor a contractor, or any other commercial activity related to the building. His friend Jacques Chevallier, the former minister, deputy and…