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Article: Auguste Perret redivivus. (View).
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
- Author:
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The long-awaited retrospective exhibition, Perret, la poetique du beton 1900-1954, at the Musee Malraux, Le Havre (1) is far more stimulating and wide-ranging than might be supposed. Some exhibits warrant a visit in their own right, among them a lively free-hand sketch made in 1952-1954 by the French stained-glass artist Marguerite Hure, showing her overall colour scheme for glazing the imposing tower at the church of St Joseph at Le Havre. 'You want your church to be beautiful, so you must let a woman design the glass', Perret is reputed to have told the Cure.
Archive drawings (many on public display for the first time) are complemented by venerable items of ...