Fernand Pouillon (1912–1986) built mass housing out of load-bearing cut stone at a moment when everyone else was building it out of concrete panels, and he did so because stone was cheaper if you quarried and cut it yourself. An admirer of Auguste Perret, he made his name in the reconstruction of the Vieux-Port at Marseille, then took on the Algiers estates — Diar es-Saada, Diar el-Mahçoul and Climat de France — that remain his largest and most argued-over work. His buildings are organised around courts and stairs rather than slabs, use rigorous harmonic proportions, and were built with sculptors, ceramicists and landscape designers on the team. He also wrote: Les Pierres sauvages won the Prix des Deux Magots in 1965.
