Article: LES FRERES PERRET: L'OEUVRE COMPLETE.(Review)

Josef Abram and others for Institut Francais d'Architecture. Paris: Editions Norma. 2000. FF495

During the first half of the twentieth century, Auguste Perret's architecture was even more prestigious in France than Le Corbusier's, Most English-speakers know about him and his brothers from Peter Collins's Concrete, The Vision of A New Architecture. That encomium came out in 1959, the year in which Auguste's widow gave the firm's archive over into public hands. For long it was inaccessible, and only since it came into the hands of IFA in the 1990s has it been properly addressed and inventorized. The result has been 40 years of little better than lipservice to the ...

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