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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 include the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the first Art Deco building in Paris; the Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy (1922–23); the Mobilier National in Paris (1937); and the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council building in Paris (1937–39). After World War II he designed a group of buildings in the centre of the port city of Le Havre, including St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre, to replace buildings destroyed by bombing during World War II. His reconstruction of the city is now a World Heritage Site for its exceptional urban planning and architecture. Early life and experiments (1874–1912) Auguste Perret was born in Ixelles, Belgium, where his father, a stonemason, had taken refuge after the Paris Commune. He received his early education in architecture in the family firm. He was accepted in the architecture course

"Terminal Southampton", une megastructure en beton armée pour les croisiéres au Havre

Geri Daja

Le projet du terminal de Southampton situé dans la ville du Havre propose une réactivation et régénération du secteur économique et touristique normand, mis en difficulté après la crise des années 2008 à 2014. Le port, endroit stratégique situé sur le front de mer et le sud de la ville, n'avait pas survécu à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et c'est dans cette zone de reconstruction d'après-guerre que s’insère le projet. L'énoncé théorique « Havre délire » a été l’occasion d’effectuer un rapprochement audacieux entre une vision quasi paranoïaque de la ville de Rem Koolhaas, développée dans son manifeste "New York délire", et la ville du Havre, véritable manifeste du classicisme structurel d’Auguste Perret. Le projet de diplôme tente quant à lui, d'incarner et donner forme aux fruits de cette union. Ainsi, le projet résulte de la tension entre la vague de mer Normande, libre et fugace, qui tente d'échapper au diktat de la grille structurelle en béton armé, brut de décoffrage. Si chaque plateforme constitue un maillage rigide de poutres métalliques, profil HEA 220, les espaces, eux, échappent à la simple compréhension du plan, coupe et élévation.

2020

La leçon d'architecture d'Auguste Perret en Suisse romande

The thesis comprises 3 sections: first a methodological description, then an analytical and theoretical exposé, thirdly a study devoted to the five protagonists within the confines of the study. The methodological description is a presentation of the "Archives de la construction moderne", the laboratory within which our work took place, and its ethical, as well as its scientific and technical methods. This promotes continuity for a vaster project and fits into a continuum. The second section is an exposé that synthetizes numerous theoretical directions that allow us to focus on those subjects elected by our research : Auguste Perret's Architecture, the "Classicisme structurel" School, Swiss Architecture from the end of the thirties to the seventies, the notion of school and student in architecture, transmission of knowledge and models and crossbreeding within the scope of a constructive context. We also broach on certain guidelines of architectural analysis used in our third section in reference to different built or projected objects. These analyses are founded on volumetric studies, urban form and implantation, as well as the relation between structure and interior lighting concepts within buildings, construction analysis through materialization and implementation, and the use of façade composition and intended meaning and finally the coexistence of the old and the new within a work and its components. We also evoke the ramifications of our study in the larger architectural field comprising French Switzerland in the second half of the twentieth century. The third section has five parts devoted to archive contents constituting our basic research material, material we attempt to rationalize with a scientific catalogue of archive funds through both an architectural and chronological analysis of a series of finished or projected works as well as points of reference from author biographies and career paths. As an appendum we reproduce both a Joseph Abram text that served as the basis for our questioning and a complete study of Fribourg's Christ-Roi Church, emblematic of the architecture within this research.

EPFL2000

Auguste Perret

Roberto Gargiani

Dopo l'ostracismo degli accademici, dopo l'avversione dei modernisti, Perret e la sua opera ripropongono oggi la forza inesauribile dell'idea di classicità. «È classico tutto ciò che merita di diventarlo, senza eccezione di tempo, di paese, di scuola. Il classico non si decreta, esso si impone; non si può che constatarlo e registrarlo». (Julien Guadet)

Editori Laterza2002

La leçon d'architecture d'Auguste Perret en Suisse romande

EPFL2000