architecture moderniste en martinique
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Modernist architecture in Guadeloupe and Martinique
Jean Doucet, Adam Martinique - January 2008
Symposium « Caribbean Modernist Architecture », organized by Museum of Modern Arts (Moma, New-York), to Kingstown - Jamaica, 29 February - 1st March, 2008
Several Aspects of the modern architectural production in Guadeloupe and Martinique
Chronology marks1927 hurricane + 1929 economic crisis : public reconstruction programs in Guadeloupe
1929 second eruption of the Mount Pelé + economic crisis : public reconstruction programs in Martinique
C. 1930 Church of Le Prêcheur
1962 First HLM (social housing) : cité Saint-Georges, in Fort-de-France.
Baie Mahault, Guadeloupe (Ali Tur)
An important heritage …
Maison Monplaisir, Fort-de-France, 1946
Rue Frébaud, Pointe-à-Pitre
… with a wide diffusion
Le Lorrain, Martinique
Lamentin, Guadeloupe
Lycée Schoelcher, Fort-de-France, 1936
Lamentin, Guadeloupe, c. 1933
Statistic distribution of architectural styles
1. district of Terres Sainville, Fort-de-France
2. district of Clairière, Fort-de-France
3. down town of Fort-de-France
4. district of Bellevue, Ermitage, Trénelle, Sainte-Thérèse (suburbs of Fort-de-France)
5. village of Schœlcher ;
6. village of Sainte-Anne.
Sites 1 2 3 4 5 6
Modernistic building 49 % 50 % 21 % 35 % 23 % 18 %
Wooden architecture 30 % 11 % 7 % 15 % 25 % 21 %
Other forms 6 % 10 % 34 % 9 % 26 % 13 %
Formless architecture 15 % 29 % 37 % 41 % 26 % 48 %
architects
Caillat, Corbin, De Lavigne, Amarias, Desbordes, Lison, Salasc, Lamartinière, …
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A wide popularisation
Bellefontaine
Créolisation : assimilate the standards of the new architecture
The use of primary colors
primary colors
néo-plasticismThéo Van Doesburg « Architecture vue d’en haut », 1923
A success of the modernistic architecture
Palais du Gouverneur, Basse-Terre, 1933
Maison Monplaisir, Fort-de-France, 1946
A success of the modernistic architecture
Régale, Rivière-Pilote, 1957
Maison Jean-Louis, Fort-de-France, c. 1940
An important heritage
Somebioclimatic solutions
Ferly house, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, arch. G.M. Corbin, ‘60