Scale and cutaway models of Rue Franklin Apartments
Perret, Auguste
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Alternative Title
Scale and cutaway models of Logements rue Franklin
Date
2007Description
Overall view of scale model of the building with central setback on the facade; Models of the apartment house built 1902-1904 at 25 bis rue Franklin. The gallery of modern and contemporary architecture models in the museum opened in 2007. "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) (accessed 8/3/2013)
Type of Work
model (representation)Subject
architecture, City planning, Housing, models (representations), Twentieth century
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