Between the two wars, France desperately lacked both public equipment and housing.
Thus, spurred by the needs of the moment and encouraged by public investment, everybody was concerned with building.
It was indeed the state that set the example, primarily with its great commissions and principally by organizing the Colonial Exhibition in 1931 or again that of 1937.
This architecture, characterized by the use of new materials such as glass, steel and especially concrete is the symbol of a society, which wanted happiness for the people.
