Besides creating furniture, he also explored designs for pre-fabricated housing, constructing dwellings for the homeless. But by the 1960s, his austere style seemed passé and he fell foul of fashion´s whims; as a self-taught designer he was also routinely excluded by the architectural establishment. His reputation may have further suffered from his own appetite for collaboration, which could make his exact role in architectural projects difficult to identify. Happily , this state of affairs changed in the 1990s when Prouvé emerged again, as his sensibility chimed again with the activities of contemporary like Jasper Morrison and Konstantin Grcic.