Architect

Paul Philippe Cret

1876–1945

Portrait: Conrad Frederick Haeseler · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born

1876 · 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France

Died

1945 · Philadelphia, United States

Nationality

French / American

On the atlas

5 buildings

Paul Philippe Cret was a French-born Philadelphia 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.

Biography from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Buildings on the atlas

• National Memorial ArchPaul Philippe Cret · 1917Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania, United States
• Detroit Institute of ArtsPaul Philippe Cret, Gunnar Birkerts & Michael Graves · 1927Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Folger Shakespeare LibraryPaul Philippe Cret · 1930Washington, D.C., USA
• Barnes FoundationPaul Philippe Cret & Tod Williams and Billie Tsien · 2012Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Goldsmith HallPaul Philippe CretUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States

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