Jean Pélissier
Jean Pélissier (1927-2003) is a DPLG architect active in Arles and in the Bouches-du-Rhône, from 1955 to the beginning of the 1990s.
Jean Pélissier was born in Arles on October 2, 1927. He studied architecture between 1944 and 1955 at the Ecole Régionale d'Architecture in Lyon, in the studio run by Tony Garnier (1869-1948) and Pierre Bourdeix (1906-1987). He graduated as an architect in 1955 (subject: A rice field in the Camargue) at the end of an honourable course during which he distinguished himself in particular by obtaining the Sallemand prize awarded by the city of Lyon (1945).
Jean Pélissier spent his entire professional life working with the architect Jacques Van Migom (1907-1980), first as a trainee (1947-1954), then as a collaborator (1955-1956) and finally as a partner (from 1957). Joined in 1963 by Michel Van Migom (1934-2007), the three men are at the head of the Van Migom-Pélissier agency, the most important Arles architecture agency of the second half of the 20th century.
While he is still a student, Jean Pélissier confronts the reality of the project and the agency work when he starts working in the agency of Jacques Van Migom, at the time of the Reconstruction. He took an active part in the city’s rebirth and later in its development. In the same way, he is very involved in the reflection undertaken with Jacques Van Migom around the rationalization of architecture, both in terms of design, construction and implementation. The agency Van Migom-Pélissier develops an original approach, which distinguishes it on the regional architectural scene, using a system of load-bearing walls in pre-cut stone from local quarries, associated with prefabricated elements. This process, the Prehewn model, was widely used by architects during the 1960s and 1970s, when the agency’s production was dominated by the construction of public facilities and housing (see Jacques Van Migom notice).
In 1977, when Jacques Van Migom ceased all activity, Jean Pélissier continued to run the agency with Michel Van Migom. Together they built a whole series of public facilities, including the Barbentane Festival Hall (1975-1977), the Chateaurenard Gendarmerie (1976-1978), the Hôtel des Impôts d'Arles (1978-1980), the chapel and presbytery of the Val Saint-André in Aix-en-Provence (1980-1982), the parish centre of Fontvieille (1983-1984) or the rescue centres of Miramas and Barbentane. Jean Pélissier ceased all professional activity at the turn of the 1990s.
Sources
Archives
- AN CAC 19771065 art 188, Dossier de demande d'agrément de Jean Pélissier auprès du MRU (1957).
- AM Arles, Fonds 15 S, Fonds des architectes Van Migom-Pélissier.
- AM Arles 15 S 1181, Reference file of architects Jacques Van Migom, Jean Pélissier and Michel Van Migom (1973).
Printed sources
- Van Migom Jacques, Pélissier Jean, Van Migom Michel, 40 years of architecture in Provence 1937-1977. Jacques Van Migom – Jean Pélissier – Michel Van Migom, 1977.
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