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Lods, Marcel
(b Paris, 16 Aug 1891; d Paris, 9 Sept 1978). French architect. He studied at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Dip. Arch., 1923). During both World Wars he served in the French army, where he developed an enduring passion for aeronautics. From 1928 to 1940 Lods was in partnership with EUGÈNE BEAUDOUIN, bringing to the team his energy and his fascination for the world of modern industry. As a devotee of modern industry and aeronautics in particular, he was always seeking to introduce new methods of production on his building sites, based on prefabrication and the simplification of assemblies. On the Champ des Oiseaux estate (1930) in Bagneux and the Cité de la Muette (1932–4; destr.; see Le Métier d’architecte) in Drancy, Lods was responsible for the detailed design of the housing units and in particular the development of the dry-assembly principle of the construction components. He was responsible for the team’s move towards ever lighter buildings, ranging from the open-air school (1934) at Suresnes with its mobile external walls, to the Maison du Peuple (1936–9) in Clichy, executed with Vladimir Bodiansky and Jean Prouvé. This ideal of an architecture tending towards immateriality is illustrated by the Roland Garros airport club house (1935) in Buc and the huge unexecuted glass and steel Palais des Expositions planned at La Défense (1935), Paris, which was to have a metallic roof accessible to cars via ramps running through glass façades.
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