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Auguste Perret

1874 - 1954

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Auguste Perret has received more than 225,070 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Auguste Perret is the 103rd most popular architect (down from 99th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 118th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Architect.

Auguste Perret is most famous for his use of reinforced concrete in architecture.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Auguste Perret ranks 103 out of 424Before him are Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Giuliano da Sangallo, Claude Perrault, Pierre Lescot, and Pier Luigi Nervi. After him are Eileen Gray, César Pelli, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Lúcio Costa, Bartolomeo Ammannati, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Auguste Perret ranks 36Before him are Antanas Smetona, Inessa Armand, Reinhold Glière, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Josef Suk, and Abbas II of Egypt. After him are Joseph Erlanger, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Charles Ives, Luigi Einaudi, and Henri Guisan. Among people deceased in 1954, Auguste Perret ranks 23Before him are Andrey Vyshinsky, Machine Gun Kelly, The French Angel, Jacinto Benavente, Claude Cahun, and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Hannes Meyer, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Martin Andersen Nexø, Charles Ives, Léon Jouhaux, and Thea von Harbou.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Auguste Perret ranks 126 out of 1,019Before him are Paul Deschanel (1855), Siger of Brabant (1240), Henri de Baillet-Latour (1876), Ermengarde of Hesbaye (778), Morris (1923), and Marguerite Porete (1250). After him are Luce Irigaray (1930), Adriaen Brouwer (1605), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (1903), David Teniers the Younger (1610), and Joseph Plateau (1801).

Among ARCHITECTS In Belgium

Among architects born in Belgium, Auguste Perret ranks 3Before him are Victor Horta (1861) and Henry van de Velde (1863). After him are Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1514), Lambert Lombard (1505), François de Cuvilliés (1695), Joseph Poelaert (1817), and Fernand de Montigny (1885).