Église Notre-Dame du Raincy, Paris, 1922Auguste Perret

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Auguste Perret

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1874-1954

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Perret and brothers: the kings of concrete

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The Architect

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Auguste Perret at the drawing board, 1945 Viollet-le-Duc «De l’architecture»

Notre-Dame du Raincy, Paris, 1922

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Raincy

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Site constrictions

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• Densely filled• Long• Narrow• Sloping

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Site constrictions

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• Densely filled• Long• Narrow• Sloping

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Naves

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BasilicaHall Church Raincy

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Plan

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Aisles

Principal nave

Pillars56 m

20 m

10 m

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Longitudinal section

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Pillars

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• 11 metres high

• Round section: diameter of 43 cm to the base and 35 cm atthe top

• Slender

• no ornament, no capital, no base

• All identical

• Fluted

• 28 in all

• Detached from walls

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Ceiling

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Ceiling

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Making a vault

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Making a pillar

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Roof

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Screen Walls

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Screen Walls

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60 cm

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Screen Walls

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Belfry tower

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Belfry tower

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Belfry tower

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Belfry tower

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Belfry tower

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Façade

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Façade

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Façade

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Façade

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Façade

Architectural rationalism

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Column in Greektradition, in marble(Parthenon)

Perret’s column,in concrete

Rigidity of the upper joint

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Could be free at the base

Conclusions

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Conclusions

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Conclusions

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Conclusions

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Conclusions

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Ideas of Form: Force and Materials

“Architecture is the art of organizing space,it is through construction that it expresses itself”

“Architecture is, of all the expressions of art,that which is the most subject to material conditions”

“ Things thecnical poetically expressedlead to architecture”

Auguste Perret

Église Notre-Dame du Raincy

- Liquid stone: new architecture in concrete, Jean-Louis Cohen

- Concrete: the Vision of A New Architecture, a study of Auguste Perret and his precursors, Collins Peter

- Auguste Perret, Ernesto N. Rogers

- Construction and character: the architecture of Auguste Perret, Gino Malacarne

- Architettura e costruzione, Martina Landsberger

Web information

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Bibliography

- L'Église Notre-Dame du Raincy, Juliette Garcias