Between 19, he also headed the Atelier Franco-International in Marseille. In 1963, André Malraux appointed him as Director of Atelier Franco-Américain d’Architecture at l’ École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Nelson taught in the most prestigious American universities. The couple had two sons, Ugo and Rory, an architect and a musician respectively. His wife died in 1951, and a year later he married the painter Madd Giannattasio, daughter of Ugo Giannattasio, futurist painter and writer. He organized an exhibition at Grand Palais regarding American architectural and construction techniques. He later took the role as adviser to the US National Health Service for the French Ministry of Public Health. In 1945, he became the Technical Advisor to the French Ministry of Reconstruction. In 1944, he was appointed as head of the Construction and Urban Planning division at the French Supply mission in Washington. He knew many artists such as Georges Braque, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, André Derain, Fernand Léger, and Alberto Giacometti.ĭuring the Second World War, Nelson returned to the United States and acted as chairman of the “France for ever” movement, which aimed to spread French culture to Americans. He was friends with figures such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and Francis Scott Fitzgerald. He settled in Varengeville-sur-Mer, working in the same workshop used years before by Claude Monet, Jean-Baptiste Corot, and Eugène Isabey. In 1927, Nelson entered the Register of Architects and was certified by the government. Francine was the daughter of François Le Cœur, an architect and teacher at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. He married a French woman, Francine Le Cœur. He moved to Paris in 1920 and continued his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the private workshop of Emmanuel Pontremoli and Auguste Perret. Nelson returned to America after the war to work at a bank and then transitioned to work at his father's interior decoration company.
unit constituted in 1916 and operated under French command during World War I. From 1913 to 1917 he studied at Princeton University and in 1917 he enrolled as a volunteer in the LaFayette Escadrille, which was a U.S. Nelson was born in Chicago, Illinois to an American middle-class family of Irish origin. In the 1970s he devised plans that would completely eliminate cars from city streets, such as an unrealized project for a holiday village in Portugal.Paul Nelson (8 November 1895 – 1979) was an American-turned-French Modern architect. As early as 1943, he outlined the mall concept as an auto-free shopping zone in the article “Grass on Main Street”. While this Fair still celebrated the automobile, Nelson expressed a more critical view of automotive transportation in his essays and lectures on urban planning. Similarly spectacular was Nelson’s exhibit for Chrysler at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, which featured a Pop-Art-inspired, 64-foot long “giant car” and a huge walk-in engine as part of the exhibition space.
The Moscow exhibition made history as the backdrop for the famous “Kitchen Debate” between Nixon and Khrushchev. He also furnished a “model apartment” and designed a large fiberglass umbrella for two other modular exhibition pavilions. Nelson and his associates selected several hundred industrial products manufactured by American companies and displayed them on a vast threedimensional multi-level platform designed especially for the exhibition.
Nelson’s wide-ranging abilities culminated in the organisation and design of the American National Exhibition in 1959, which was held in Moscow.
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