Author: Theophilus Ballou WhitePublisher: Philadelphia : Art Alliance Press
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Paul Philippe Cret, Architect and Teacher
Author: Theophilus Ballou WhitePublisher: Philadelphia : Art Alliance Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Paul Philippe Cret
Author: Elizabeth Greenwell GrossmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Civic Architecture of Paul Cret
Author: Elizabeth Greenwell GrossmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521496018
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Focusing on 6 important civic projects erected between 1907 and 1939, Grossman demonstrates how Cret's architecture contributed to the debate about modern architecture and classicism which engaged the architectural profession during the 1920s and '30s
Paul Phillippe Cret
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Typed, signed note and biographical sketch France/America Paul Philippe Cret (October 24, 1876 - September 8, 1945) was a French-American architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he headed the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Lyon, France, Cret was educated at that city's École des Beaux-Arts, then in Paris, where he studied at the Atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal. He came to the United States in 1903 to teach at the University of Pennsylvania. Although settled in America, he happened to be in France at the outbreak of World War I. He enlisted and remained in the French army for the duration, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and made an officer in the Legion of Honor. His first major commission, designed with Albert Kelsey, was the Pan-American Union Building (now Organization of American States) in Washington DC (1908-10), a breakthrough that led to many war memorials, civic buildings, court houses, and other solid, official structures. His work through the 1920s was firmly in the Beaux-Arts tradition, but with the radically simplified classical form of the Folger Shakespeare Library (1929-32), he flexibly adopted and applied monumental classical traditions to modernist innovations. (Bertram Goodhue also falls in that category.) Some of Cret's work is remarkably streamlined and forward-thinking, and includes collaborations with sculptors such as Alfred Bottiau and Leon Hermant. In the late 1920s the architect was brought in as design consultant on Fellheimer and Wagner's magnificent Cincinnati Union Terminal (1929-33), the high-water mark of Art Deco style in the United States. He became an American citizen in 1927. In 1931 the regents of The University of Texas at Austin commissioned Cret to design a master-plan for the campus, and build the Beaux-Art Main Building (1934-37), the university's signature tower. Cret would go on to collaborate on about twenty buildings on the campus. Cret's contributions to the railroad industry also included the design of the side fluting on the Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr (debuted in 1934) and the Santa Fe's Super Chief (1936) passenger cars. Cret won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1938. Ill health forced his resignation from teaching in 1937, and after years of inactivity he died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of heart disease. Cret headed the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania for over 30 years, and designed such projects as the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, the master plan for the University of Texas in Austin, the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, and the Duke Ellington Bridge in Washington, DC. Louis Kahn studied at the University of Pennsylvania under Cret, and worked in Cret's architectural office, 1929-30. Other notable architects who studied under Cret include Alfred Easton Poor, Charles I. Barber, and Chinese architect Lin Huiyin.
Modern Classics
Author: Paul Philippe CretPaul Philippe Cret
Author: Thomas HoltzPublisher:
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Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
Author: Leon Battista AlbertiPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262510608
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded.
Paul Philippe Cret Buildings
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 9781230505435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Fair Park, Barnes Foundation, Detroit Institute of Arts, Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Eternal Light Peace Memorial, Main Building, Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Folger Shakespeare Library, George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library, Chateau-Thierry American Monument, Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley, Central Heating Plant, Rodin Museum, Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Duke Ellington Bridge, Texas Memorial Museum, Eccles Building, National Memorial Arch. Excerpt: Dallas Fair Park is a 277-acre (1.12 km) recreational and educational complex located in Dallas, Texas (USA). The complex is registered as a Dallas Landmark, National Historic Landmark and is home to nine museums, six performance facilities, a lagoon, and the largest Ferris wheel in North America. Many of the buildings on the complex were constructed for the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 which drew over six million visitors. Most of the buildings built for the exposition still survive and Fair Park is recognized as a significant example of Art Deco architecture. The site was established as an 80-acre (320,000 m) fairground on the outskirts of East Dallas for the Dallas State Fair in 1886. In 1904 after a fire and financial loss by the fair association, voters approved the "Reardon Plan," which strove to keep the site out of the hands of real-estate developers. It became Dallas' second public park and became known as "Fair Park." A milestone year in the history of Fair Park was 1936, when the Texas Centennial Exposition was held on the site. In preparation for the six-month long event, the appearance of the park was dramatically altered by architect George Dahl and consulting architect Paul Cret. The park was transformed from an early twentieth century fairground into the Art...
Paul Philippe Cret Drawings for the University of Texas
Author: Paul Philippe CretPublisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages :
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Drawings, floor plans, elevations, sections, details, landscape plans, diagrams and presentation renderings of Cret's work at the University of Texas at Austin (1930-1945). Among the buildings included are the following: Library, Architecture, Union Group and Auditorium, Home Economics, Littlefield Memorial, Yount House, Texas Memorial Museum and a number of dormitories.
Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts
Author: Jeffrey W. CodyPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861019
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects at American universities whose design curricula were dominated by Beaux-Arts methods. Upon their return home in the 1920s and 1930s, these graduates began to practice architecture and create China’s first architectural schools, often transferring a version of what they had learned in the U.S. to Chinese situations. The resulting complex series of design-related transplantations had major implications for China between 1911 and 1949, as it simultaneously underwent cataclysmic social, economic, and political changes. After 1949 and the founding of the People’s Republic, China experienced a radically different wave of influence from the Beaux-Arts through advisors from the Soviet Union who, first under Stalin and later Khrushchev, brought Beaux-Arts ideals in the guise of socialist progress. In the early twenty-first century, China is still feeling the effects of these events. Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts examines the coalescing of the two major architectural systems, placing significant shifts in architectural theory and practice in China within relevant, contemporary, cultural, and educational contexts. Fifteen major scholars from around the world analyze and synthesize these crucial events to shed light on the dramatic architectural and urban changes occurring in China today—many of which have global ramifications. This stimulating and generously illustrated work is divided into three sections, framed by an introduction and a postscript. The first focuses on the convergence of Chinese architecture and the École des Beaux-Arts, outlining the salient aspects of each and suggesting how and why the two "met" in the U.S. The second section centers on the question of how Chinese architects were influenced by the Beaux-Arts and how Chinese architecture was changed as a result. The third takes an even closer look at the Beaux-Arts influence, addressing how innovative practices, new schools of architecture, and buildings whose designs were linked to Beaux-Arts assumptions led to distinctive new paradigms that were rooted in a changing China. By virtue of its scope, scale, and scholarship, this volume promises to become a classic in the fields of Chinese and Western architectural history. Contributors: Tony Atkin, Peter J. Carroll, Yung Ho Chang,Jeffrey W. Cody, Kerry Sizheng Fan, Fu Chao-Ching, Gu Daqing, Seng Kuan,Delin Lai, Xing Ruan, Joseph Rykwert, Nancy S. Steinhardt, David VanZanten, Rudolf Wagner, Zhang Jie, Zhao Chen.