COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Rue Franklin Apartments
Alternate Title:
Logements rue Franklin
Image View:
Window over right entrance, detail of corner, side view
Creator:
Auguste Perret (French architect, 1874-1954)
Location:
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note:
25 bis rue Franklin
Date:
1902-1904 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Modernist; Modern
Work Type 1:
apartment house
Classification:
architecture
Material:
reinforced concrete frame
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; decorative arts; Housing; dwelling
Description:
"This apartment building with which Perret established his reputation is to be regarded as one of the canonical works of 20th-century architecture, not only for its explicit and brilliant use of the reinforced concrete frame (the Hennebique system) but also for the way in which its internal organization was to anticipate Le Corbusier's later development of the free plan. Perret deliberately made the apartment partition walls nonstructural throughout and their partial removal would have yielded an open space, punctuated only by a series of free-standing columns. As it is, each floor is organized with the main and service stairs to the rear (each with its own elevator) the kitchen to one side and the principal rooms to the front. These last are divided up from left to right into rooms assigned to smoking, dining, living, sleeping and reception..." p 116. (Source: Frampton, Kenneth; Modern architecture, 1851-1945, New York: Rizzoli, 1983 (0847805069))
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Three
Identifier:
1A1-PAU-LF-D4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Rue Franklin Apartments
