biography
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Cret, Paul Philippe
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1945)
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| biography:
| Architect and teacher, born in Lyons, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and emigrated to Philadelphia in 1903. Particularly prolific during the 1920s, he designed civic and memorial buildings in a modern classical style adapted to steel-frame construction. Among his projects is the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (1928–32). He became professor of design at the University of Pennsylvania (1903–37) and received the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal (1938). |
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