Abstract
"The swimming pool of Pantin : an ambitious architectural and social achievement", by Christelle Inizan. In 1935, while the construction of a sewage pumping and treatment plant was planned by the administration of the French water Utility, the town Council of Pantin decided to have a municipal swimming pool built nearby. It would be supplied with warm waters drawn from one of the neighbouring wells. The mayor of the time, Charles Auray, commissioned his son, as a twenty-four-year-old architect, and appointed Jean Molinié, as a more experienced engineer, to him. The two buildings were definitely architecturally related, which would be paradoxically emphasized by the eventual alterations of the factory façades. Combining ail the features characteristic of the contemporary swimming pools, the swimming pool of Pantin freely borrows from the works of one of the most outstanding personalities of the Dutch Modem Movement, the architect Willem Marinus Dudok.
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