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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Occupation. Architect. Paul Philippe Cret (October 23, 1876 – September 8, 1945) was a French-born Philadelphian architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he taught at a design studio in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania .
Sept. 8, 1945, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. (aged 68) Paul Phillippe Cret (born Oct. 21, 1876, Lyon, France—died Sept. 8, 1945, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) was an architect and teacher, a late adherent to the Beaux Arts tradition. Introduced to architecture in the office of his uncle, Johannes Bernard, Cret studied in Lyon and at the École des Beaux ...
Penn Connection. Architect of Cret Wing of Chemistry Building and additions to Moore School Building. Professor of architectural design. Paul Philippe Cret was born in Lyons, France, in 1876. He attended architecture school at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in both Lyon and Paris.
H2L2 Collection, Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Local ID #: 2013.38.01. > View more images [59 total] Born: 10/23/1876, Died: 9/8/1945. One of the most influential forces in Philadelphia architecture during the early part of the twentieth century, Paul P. Cret was born in Lyons, France.
Oct 21, 2014 · Paul Philippe Cret (pronounced “Cray”) is hardly a household name, yet during the three decades leading up to World War II, he was one of America’s leading architects. Cret’s work includes...
CFA Service: 1940–1945. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and Paris in the 1890s, Paul Philippe Cret, FAIA, is regarded as a practitioner of early modernism. Before settling in the United States in 1903 to teach at the University of Pennsylvania, Cret’s reputation in France was already well established, and he was the recipient ...
Paul Philippe Cret Collection (062), Architect, 1876-1945. Paul Cret was the Professor of Design of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania from 1903-1937. He was the dominant force in American architectural education and had a profound impact on an entire generation of architects.
