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    Auguste Perret (12 February 1874 – 25 February 1954) was a French architect and a pioneer of the architectural use of reinforced concrete. His major works...
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    then other international trade. After the 1944 bombings the firm of Auguste Perret began to rebuild the city in concrete. The oil, chemical, and automotive...
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    Rennie Mackintosh (1896–99) Reinforced concrete apartment building by Auguste Perret, Paris (1903) Austrian Postal Savings Bank in Vienna by Otto Wagner...
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    the concrete with a mesh of iron rods in a grill pattern. In 1893, Auguste Perret built the first concrete garage in Paris, then an apartment building...
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    1908 and 1910 he worked as a draftsman in the office of the architect Auguste Perret, the pioneer of the use of reinforced concrete in residential construction...
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    was built from 1911 to 1913 upon the designs of brothers Auguste Perret and Gustave Perret following a scheme by Henry van de Velde, and became the first...
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  • was part of a large scale reconstruction project helmed by architect Auguste Perret in the Place Alphone-Fiquet neighborhood, which also involved a rebuild...
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  • Perret may refer to: Perret, Côtes-d'Armor, a commune in France Auguste Perret (1874–1954), French architect Catherine Perret French Philosopher and Art...
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    Antoine Bourdelle, 16th arrondissement of Paris Palais d'Iéna (1937), Auguste Perret, 16th arrondissement of Paris Palais de Chaillot (1937), Jacques Carlu...
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    Havre, France. From 1945 to 1964, the City of Le Havre commissioned Auguste Perret and his studio to head the rebuilding of the entire city after it had...
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    by Auguste Perret and construction began in 1953. Perret died shortly afterwards and Jacques Tournant took over until completion in 1958. Perret was...
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    Amiens (section Tour Perret)
    stone with slate roofs. The architect Auguste Perret designed the Gare d'Amiens train station and nearby Tour Perret. Amiens has an important historical...
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    in a grid pattern. Two French architects, Auguste Perret made very innovative use of the new system. Perret used it to construct the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées...
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    near Paris. It was built in 1922-23 by the French architects Auguste Perret and Gustave Perret. The edifice is considered a monument of modernism in architecture...
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    stressed functionality. The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1913), designed by Auguste Perret, was the first Paris building utilizing Art Deco. Other innovative buildings...
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    "Juridiction de Saint-Émilion". UNESCO. "Le Havre, la ville reconstruite par Auguste Perret". UNESCO. "Mont-Saint-Michel et sa baie". UNESCO. "Palais et parc de...
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    took a job with France's foremost developer of reinforced concrete, Auguste Perret, working there for over ten years. He started his career in fashion...
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    the Louvre 10 years after their death. Imagined as early as 1929 by Auguste Perret to replace the old Palais du Trocadero, the construction of a museum...
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    The use of béton brut was pioneered by modernist architects such as Auguste Perret and Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier coined the term béton brut during the...
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    the first modern architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Auguste Perret, Louis Sullivan, and Le Corbusier, who considered Viollet-le-Duc as...
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  • following years got to know many other Paris-based architects, including Auguste Perret, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. In 1929, before finishing his studies...
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    building itself. The leading proponents of the Art Deco were Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage. Perret designed the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the first Art...
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  • Chaptal and Lycée Voltaire. Architects such as Henri Labrouste and Auguste Perret incorporated the virtues of structural rationalism throughout the 19th...
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    reachable by helical stairs (visible in the top openwork part) or by lift. Auguste Perret, with the assistance of Marie Dormoy, art critic, came to Grenoble for...
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    brutalist trends of the 1950s and 1960s. Le Havre, the city rebuilt by Auguste Perret, was added to Unesco's World Heritage List in 2005. Vernacular architecture...
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    dance of Isadora Duncan. Conservative modernist architects such as Auguste Perret in France kept the rhythms and spacing of columnar architecture even...
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    under professor Jože Plečnik. Between 1924 and 1926 he worked with Auguste Perret in Paris, and between 1929 and 1931 in Tokyo, Japan with Antonín Raymond...
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    renovation, including an old navy building, designed in 1934 by Gustave and Auguste Perret. The complex boasts a real drawbridge, interior gardens, missile-strike-resisant...
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    buildings such as the Notre-Dame du Raincy in Le Raincy (1921-1923) by Auguste Perret and Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fátima (1934-1938) in Lisbon, built by...
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  • Award (Netherlands, 1999) The UIA (International Union of Architects) Auguste Perret Award Several Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) annual design...
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