Maison du Peuple (Clichy)

'House of the People') in Clichy, classified as official historical monument of France (Monument Historique) since 1983, is a building built from 1935 to 1939 in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne by the architects Eugène Beaudouin, Marcel Lods, the engineer Vladimir Bodiansky and Jean Prouvé.

[1] The Maison du Peuple of Clichy is both "an architectural jewel of the first immediate suburbs ",[2] "a mechanical jewel "[1] and "a perfect example of harmony between modernity and modernisation"[3] In 1935, the mayor of Clichy, Charles Auffray, launched a competition for architects to cover the outdoor market in Rue de Lorraine.

[4] The architects Beaudouin and Lods, associated with the engineer Vladimir Bodianski, proposed an innovative project: they intended to put the space to maximum use and therefore planned to leave the market on the ground floor while adding a floor on top of it that could house offices and a multipurpose room with 1,000 seats.

To achieve what Charles Auffray called the Maison du Peuple , the architects collaborated with Jean Prouvé.

For its foundations, it seemed useful at that time to build a basement intended to serve, possibly, as an anti-aircraft shelter that still exists today.