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6 unusual facts about Auguste Perret


Atelier LWD

Guy Lagneau (1915–1996) and Michel Weill (1914–2001) met in the studio of Auguste Perret in the National School of Fine Arts established in 1943.

Fernand Pouillon

He also worked on reconstruction of the war-damaged Old Port of Marseille together with Auguste Perret and others.

Georges Closson

In 1926 Closson won a design competition for the new Basilica of Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc in Paris over a competing design by Auguste Perret.

Guy Lagneau

He was a pupil and admirer of the architect Auguste Perret, whose later reconstruction of Le Havre (which was devastated during World War II) was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Jean Le Couteur

He then established his own firm in Bizerte, building his first major work, the Notre-Dame-de-France (1948-1953), which was inspired by Auguste Perret.

Michel Roux-Spitz

Influenced by Auguste Perret, he made a characteristic building of his style - with bay windows to 3 sides on the front - at 14 Guynemer street in Paris.


Chana Orloff

In addition to monuments, Orloff sculpted portraits of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and future Prime Minister Levi Eshkol; the architects Pierre Chareau, and Auguste Perret; painters Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and Per Krohg; and the poets Hayyim Nahman Bialik, and Pierre Mac Orlan.

Haggerston School

Haggerston School is the only English secondary school to be designed by internationally-regarded architect, Ernő Goldfinger, who studied under Auguste Perret in Paris.

Villa Jeanneret-Perret

The Villa Jeanneret-Perret is a witness to the pioneering architecture of the 20th century and the development of Le Corbusier; his characteristic neo-classic style breaks with the regional Art Nouveau and is based on his experience in Paris as a student of Auguste Perret and in Berlin with Peter Behrens.


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