With his exploration of technical thinking and the objects that arose from this pursuit, Jean Prouve is one of the major figures in architecture and design of the 20th century. This new publication is devoted to his technical and planning-oriented thinking. From the start - first as an ironmonger, then as an industrialist in the heyday of the ateliers, later with CIMT and as an engineering consultant - Jean Prouve dedicatedly pursued the project of construction "by industry" - as he himself then put it in the title of his book Une architecture par industrie (Architecture by Industry).