Perret isn’t the only architect to have redrawn Le Havre. Oscar Niemeyer designed Le Volcan – a hulking, volcano-shaped cultural centre in the city centre (locals call it “the yoghurt pot ...

The exhibition, Auguste Perret: Eight Masterpieces !/?, is really about dualities: the subject of the exhibition, the architect Perret (1874-1954), an architectural innovator in reinforced ...

During the opening of ' Auguste Perret: Eight Masterpieces ' in Paris, architect Rem Koolhaas shepherded Miuccia Prada through the pillared room of the Palais d'Iéna, pointing out various features of ...

Emigholz’s m.o. – carefully composed static shots of various angles of thirty of modernist architect Auguste Perret’s cast-concrete buildings in France and Algeria, its one-time colony ...

See highlights here. “Auguste Perret, Huit Chefs d’œuvre !/?” is on exhibit from November 27, 2013, through February 19, 2014.

BUILDING STUDY Alta Tower rises up over Le Havre’s postwar Modernism The 64-apartment building by Hamonic+Masson & Associés stands out against the horizon in Le Havre – a city that was rebuilt, ...

Of all the materials associated with art deco style (lacquer, lustrous metals, glass, hardwood) concrete surely isn’t one of them. But it is thanks to this decidedly unglamorous composite that so much ...

In 1945 noted modernist architect Auguste Perret designed new studio spaces to meet the needs of the growing institution. The influence of the École des Beaux-Arts extends across the globe.