Rue Franklin Apartments
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 | Rue Franklin Apartments |
| Designer | Auguste Perret |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Date | 1902 to 1904 |
| Building Type | apartment housing |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Early Modern |
| Street Address | 25 rue Benjamin Franklin Walk Score |
| Notes | Frank expression of concrete construction, highly glazed facade. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Rue_Franklin_Apartments.html |
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Commentary
"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..."
— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p116.
"The famous apartment block in the rue Franklin at Passy...was also built as a family speculation, although in this case for occupation by the head of the family, and for use as the office of the firm.... [A]dvantage was taken of the 1902 decree concerning bow-windows; indeed, if we measure their width, we find that they are to within 3 centimeters of the maximum area which the law allowed. An even more ingenious interpretation of the building regulations was to be seen in the semi-octagonal recess between these projections, which formed the most novel element in the composition, since it not only allowed every room a splendid view over Paris, but obviated the need to introduce the customary interior courtyard."
— Peter Collins. Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture, A Study of Auguste Perret and his Precursors. p178-179, 181,182, 183.
The Creator's Words
"One must never allow into a building any element destined solely for ornament, but rather turn to ornament all the parts necessary for its support."
"Construction is the architect's mother tongue; the architect is a poet who thinks and speaks in construction."
— Auguste Perret. from Peter Collins. Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture, A Study of Auguste Perret and his Precursors. p199.
Details
Address: No. 25b, Rue Franklin, Paris, France.
The address of the apartments is 25 bis rue Franklin.
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Peter Collins. Concrete, the Vision of a New Architecture: A Study of Auguste Perret and his Precursors. New York: Horizon Press, 1959. LC 59-1958. NA4125.C6. discussion p178-179, 181, 182, 183, 199.
Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. photo, p1251.— The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
Kenneth Frampton. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. second floor plan, p116. — Available at Amazon.com
Werner Hofmann and Udo Kultermann. Modern Architecture in Color. New York: The Viking Press, 1971. NA642.H6413. SBN 670-48265-X. Color photo of front facade, plate 29, p163.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. cut away axonometric drawing, p228.Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com
Roger Sherwood. Modern Housing Prototypes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. NA7126.S48. ISBN 0-674-57941-0. LC78-15508. typical unit plan drawing, figA, p75. axonometric drawing, figA, p74.
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