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Article: Auguste Perret. (Poor Perret).(Brief Article)(Review)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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By Karla Britton. London: Phaidon Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]39.95
'Even with the extensive amount of serious research that has been devoted to Perret, the enigmatic, even impervious quality of his work remains a stumbling block', states Karla Britton in her preface; 'Written from outside the milieu of French technical analyses, ... this book seeks to make his work more accessible'. Her aim is 'to understand Perret as he understood himself'. Needless to say. she falls short of the mark.
Her introductory chapter, which skates through Perret's career at speed, and sections of her text dealing in more detail with three of his buildings (25 bis rue ...
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