Note

- Auguste Perret's idea was to create a building that concern

about structure and traditional building expression.
- He used concrete as a tectonic architecture material and he
did many experiments for reinforced concrete such as using
aggregates of varying size and color.
- His works have been influenced by Greco-Gothic style and
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- Columns was over used on the interior and exterior in order
to show value-engineering and its ornament aesthetic ,
not necessary on both sides to transfer its load
- Auguste Perret's idea shown two exterior columns on the
seldom-seen back of the building in order to shows
value-engineering and its ornament aesthetic

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des Arts Decoratifs

Contribution une thorie :He who hides any part of the

framework not only deprives architecture of its sole
legitimacy but also strips from it its most beautiful ornament.
He who hides a column makes a blunder, but he who makes
a false column commits a crime. quoted from Perret
- Applied French classical rational order such as fluting at
column, louver ventilation as frieze.
- Greco-Gothic style + French order
51 rue Raynouard,(1932)
- The reinforce concrete apartment building was construct
after Rue frankin (1902)
- Considered combining in Situ and Precast Concrete
systematically in the same design -Tailor made

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The general principle of this system, once stated, seems so

self-evident that its ingenuity may not be apparent, but it is
important to appreciate that until this date, it is doubtful if
any architect had seriously considered combining in situ and
pre-cast concrete systematically in the same design, except
to make the latter constitute permanent form-work for the
former. By suggesting that the structural members should
be cast In situ as a monolithic frame, and that all nonloadbearing elements should be pre-cast to specific designs on
the site itself, rather than in a factory, Perret completely
revolutionized one aspect of reinforced concrete building
technique at a time when pre-casting was usually thought
of as essentially a means of commercial mass-production,
and justifiable if carried out by an independent firm which