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	Auguste Perret Biography / Biography of Auguste Perret Biography
		Auguste Perret (1874-1954), a French architect and building contractor, was one of the first to use concrete as an architecturally significant material, and his works had an important influence upon the International Style of the 1920s in Europe.
		Auguste Perret the son of a building contractor, was born at Ixelles near Brussels on February 12, 1874.
		Perret raised the material to architectural distinction in such buildings as the three upon which his reputation principally rests: an apartment building at 25b Rue Franklin (1903) and a garage at 51 Rue de Ponthieu (1905), both in Paris, and the Church of Notre Dame (1922) at Le Raincy near Paris.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-auguste-perret (584 words)

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		Perret was as single-minded and unique in his approach to the structure of his business as he was to the structure of his buildings.
		In the description of the building, Perret highlighted the procedures used in its construction: "The building is constructed from reinforced concrete, the fillings of the facade are triple-partitioned: outside the concrete panels (linked with lime) are two plaster panes separated by 0.04 m.
		Nonetheless, according to Perret, "it is the reinforced concrete frame, designed in such a way as to remain noticeable from the interior and the exterior, which adorns the house".
	www.meamnet.polimi.it /archive/056/056m1.html (935 words)

	Auguste Perret. (Poor Perret).(Brief Article)(Review) - The Architectural Review - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Her aim is 'to understand Perret as he understood himself'.
		Her introductory chapter, which skates through Perret's career at speed, and sections of her text dealing in more detail with three of his buildings (25 bis rue Franklin, 51 rue Raynouard and the Musee des Travaux Publics) read like perfectly acceptable student essays.
		To Britton, this anecdote 'captures the myopic sense of achievement Perret felt', in that he 'seems to have been unaware of the ambivalence which is evident in the Mobilier.
	www.highbeam.com /library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:85411548&ctrlInfo=Round18:Mode18c:DocG:Result&ao= (515 words)

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		Portrait of Auguste Perret in Chile, 1936 © IFA
		Auguste Perret was born in Brussels in 1874.
		Auguste's father started up a construction firm and Auguste and his two brothers became quickly accustomed to construction work.
	www.meamnet.polimi.it /archive/056/056m.html (217 words)

	Images of Foch Avenue, Le Havre, France, by Auguste Perret, 1945-54. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By September 1946, Perret's plan for the redevelopment of the city center was accepted.
		Perret's architectural style is sometimes known as "structural classicism"--a combination of rational neo-classicism and new technology, especially the use of reinforced concrete.
		Perret retained the important thoroughfare, Foch Aveneue, which runs from the Town Hall to the ocean.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/lehavre/perretcity.html (240 words)

	France - Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
		It is an outstanding post-war example of urban planning and architecture based on the unity of methodology and the use of prefabrication, the systematic utilization of a modular grid, and the innovative exploitation of the potential of concrete.
		Perret was one of the earliest advocates of reinforced concrete as a building material; his apartment building (1902-1903) in the Rue Franklin in Paris was the first French residential building in concrete.
		Perret was forward-looking in his emphasis on designs that visually reveal a building's structure; his preoccupation with classical proportion links him with earlier architects, as exemplified in his Church of Notre Dame (1923) at Le Raincy.
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-FranceLeHavre.htm (354 words)

	Auguste Perret - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Auguste Perret - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Perret, Auguste (1874-1954), French architect, one of the most important pioneers of the modern French style.
		Because it was the sixth month in the Roman year, which begins with March, it was originally named Sextilis (from...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Auguste_Perret.html (106 words)

	. : Auguste Perret and the Construction of Exactitude
		Auguste Perret (1874-1954), a French architect best known for the dignification of reinforced concrete, developed a vocabulary of design whose clarity of form masks the subtlety of its intent.
		As one of the "great generation" of architects including Wright, Berlage and Behrens, and an heir to the French rationalist building tradition, Perret contributed to the evolution of modern critical thought about architecture through a disciplined regard for construction as the most complete of all human acts.
		First, there is Perret's sense of "vocation" as a deliberate adoption of a role of professional responsibility.
	www.arch.columbia.edu /gsap/22236?PHPSESSID=0b0b9723e57af044609122aa36ffb93c (388 words)

	Auguste Perret - Great Buildings Online
		Auguste Perret was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1874.
		Auguste Perret and his brother, Gustave, inherited their father's building company and began experimenting with reinforced concrete.
		Although Perret viewed concrete as a superior form of construction to masonry, he viewed each element separately.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Auguste_Perret.html (250 words)

	AllRefer.com - Auguste Perret (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Auguste Perret[OgUst´ perA´] Pronunciation Key, 1874–1954, French architect.
		In the latter two buildings the concrete frame is itself exposed in some areas.
		Perret's famous church at Le Raincy, near Paris (1922–23), is perhaps the first architecturally satisfactory building in the new material.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Perret-A.html (302 words)

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		Perret at the time had just turned fifty and had attained, on a myriad of professional occasions, many of the goals he had set for himself in the distant years of youth.
		A frequent visitor to worksites as well as an omnivorous reader, a man of keen thought and a weighty member of cultural circles, Perret could boast an uncommon familiarity with architecture, always accompanied by extreme rigor in formal decisions, deriving from his having had the chance to meld theoretical concepts with direct practice in construction.
		Auguste was the master and tireless educator, Gustave the designer and manager of the studio, Claude the entrepreneur.
	www.materia.it /materia/saggioScheda?id=0655800997 (595 words)

	Auguste Perret
		French architect Auguste Perret (1874-1954) was a pioneering precursor to the Modern Movement, defining the agenda for a new architecture for the twentieth century.
		This monograph is the first sustained study of Perret in English, richly illustrated with colour photography as well as drawings and photographs from the Perret archive.
		It also features an appendix of Perret's writing on architecture, including his published text Contribution to a Theory of Architecture, which provides an insight into the forces behind his craft and its artistic and social principles.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0714840432 (369 words)

	Bookshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The point about the three Perrets (photographs of Gustave, Claude and the great Auguste larking about as young men inject some levity into an otherwise ponderous tome) is that they were not just architects but a design-and/or-build firm.
		The pragmatism of most of the Perret drawings and dossiers is at odds with the format, so the editors have had to be very selective.
		Even the fine preface by Abram, which quite rightly asserts the pre-eminence of architecture in the Perret firm’s priorities, is an old piece of work, rehashing an essay that appeared for English readers in Construction History for 1987.
	www.arplus.com /book/reviews/apr2001perret.htm (475 words)

	gorilla: 'Auguste Perret ' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A study of the architect Auguste Perret and an insight into his many buildings and projects - from small-scale buildings such as houses and artists' studios, to larger-scale civic works such as the Musee des Travaux in Paris.
		French architect Auguste Perret (1874-1954) was highly influential in the development of 20th-century architecture.
		He was one of the first architects to exploit the architectural potential of concrete, a material that previously had been perceived as common and industrial.
	www.gorilla.it /gorilla/product.asp?sku=0714840432 (157 words)

	Perret, Auguste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Tall, lithe columns support low-arching vaults, and the structure is surrounded by a continuous wall of glass supported by prefabricated concrete units.
		In warehouses and factories Perret also made use of concrete vaulting.
		After World War II he contributed plans for the rebuilding of parts of Le Havre, Amiens, and Marseilles.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/Perret-A.html (229 words)

	Perret, Auguste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The son of a prosperous builder, Perret entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1891 but never officially graduated because it would have negated his ability to work as a contractor.
		For their first project, they created the first multistory concrete building by utilizing reinforced concrete.
		He did not use concrete to form a structural whole in the way suggested by Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/P/Perret/Perret.htm (162 words)

	Auguste Perret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		French architect Auguste Perret (18741954) was a pioneering precursor to the Modern Movement.
		His career is inextricably linked to the constructional technique of reinforced concrete: in works such as his 1903 apartment building in rue Franklin, Paris, concrete a material that previously had been perceived as common and industrial was reinvented, handled artistically and given its own idiom.
		This monograph is the first sustained study of Perret in English, richly illustrated with new colour photography as well as drawings and photographs from the Perret archive.
	www.familyhaven.com /architecture/architecture18/0714840432AMUS491751.shtml (196 words)

	Rue Franklin Apartments - Auguste Perret - Great Buildings Online
		Perret deliberately made the apartment partition walls nonstructural throughout and their partial removal would have yielded an open space, punctuated only by a series of free-standing columns.
		As it is, each floor is organized with the main and service stairs to the rear (each with its own elevator) the kitchen to one side and the principal rooms to the front.
		Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture, A Study of Auguste Perret and his Precursors.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Rue_Franklin_Apartments.html (411 words)

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		Auguste Perret, Apartment building at 25 rue Franklin, Paris, 1902
		Auguste Perret, Garage at 51 rue Ponthieu, Paris, 1905
		Auguste Perret: "One must never allow into a building any element destined solely for ornament, but rather turn to ornament all the parts necessary for support."
	www.arthistory.upenn.edu /spr01/282/w4c1q.htm (249 words)

	Le Havre, the city rebuilt by Auguste Perret - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		As a result of numerous air-raids during World War Two, the port of Le Havre lost its administrative and cultural center as well as much of its housing in the center of the city.
		Reconstruction planning began in 1945 with Auguste Perret as chief architect and city planner.
		To get here you can travel up from Paris, it is just short of 3 hours by train if I remember correctly, or until mid 2005 at least you can get the ferry from Portsmouth.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/lehavre.html (449 words)

	Auguste Perret
		Immeubles construits selon les plans de l'architecte Auguste Perret Le gouvernement a proposé la candidature de la ville d.
		Le centre du Havre reconstruit par Perret entre au Patrimoine mondial
		La cour de l'école qui s'est effondrée dans la nuit du 14 au 15 février dernier Les 900 enfants du groupe scolaire Auguste.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0838486.html (312 words)

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	UIA / 2002 UIA PRIZES
		This name will be made public at a ceremony organised during the UIA Congress in Berlin, on 25 July 2002.
		Two UIA Member Sections proposed the candidature of Sir Norman Foster for this session of the Auguste Perret Prize.
		The jury, having duly considered the criteria set for this prize for the use of technology in architecture, unanimously decided to award it to Sir Norman Foster.
	www.uia-architectes.org /texte/england/2zd1.htm (1508 words)

	Prairie Avenue Bookshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Detailed look at a pioneering precursor to the Modern Movement whose career was linked to construction in reinforced concrete at the turn of the century.
		The first sustained study of Perret in English, richly illustrated with new color photos along with drawings and photos from the Perret archives.
		Includes an appendix of his aphorisms and other writings on his craft outlining his artistic and social principles.
	www.pabook.com /detail.asp?id=0714840432 (74 words)

	Amazon.ca: Auguste Perret: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Theatre des Champs Elysees was completed before the first world war, and its "nudity" shocked Parisians as much as the barbaric rhythms of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which provoked a riot when it was premiered here.
		Now, Perret's masterwork can be seen as a perfect balance of grace and daring--the greatest theater in the city.
		A couple of apartment blocks were even more ahead of their time, but Perret, like Breuer, stayed around too long and the later work, particularly the rebuilding of Le Havre, diminished his standing.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0714840432 (557 words)

	Le Havre - Places to visit
		In July 2005, the UNESCO listed the centre of Le Havre rebuilt by Auguste Perret on the WORLD HERITAGE.
		A major 20th century architect, a true " poet of concrete ", original and innovative, Perret managed to draw inspiration both from classical tradition and from a strong modernisation will to reexplore, on 133 hectares, a unique city where the architecture is understandable, light, harmonious and truly innovative.
		The city centre of Le Havre has become the first 20 th century urban centre in Europe to receive this prestigious international distinction.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /lehavretourisme/gbplace_vis.htm (218 words)

	Images of the Town Hall, Le Havre, France, by Auguste Perret, 1957. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Images of the Town Hall, Le Havre, France, by Auguste Perret, 1957.
		After Perret's death in 1954, his collaborator, Tournant finished this civic center with the seventeen-story tall tower (74 meters high); though built of reinforced concrete, the building is classical and symmetrical.
		The town hall was added on to in 1987, but maintained a continuity with the rational architecture of Perret.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/lehavre/perrettownhall.html (151 words)

	Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
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		Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/1181 (271 words)

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