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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1938
Born: October 24, 1876;
Lyon, France
Died: 1945;
Philadelphia
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• 1937: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
• 1937: Federal Reserve Board Building (now the Eccles
Building), Washington D.C.
• 1923: Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pa.
• 1921: Detroit Institute of Art
• 1916: Indianapolis Central Public Library
Biography
Paul Cret was a native of Lyon, France. He studied architecture
first at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon; after winning the Prix
de Paris in 1896, he moved to the Paris Ecole and studied under
Pascal, graduating in 1903. While at Paris, Cret won the Rougevin
Prize and the Grand Medal of Emulation for his abilities as a
draftsman.
After graduation, Cret moved to Philadelphia to teach design at the
University of Pennsylvania; he remained there off and on until he
retired in 1937. In 1907 he began private practice and partnered
with Albert Kelsey on the design of the Pan American Union in
Washington, D.C. He also won a competition for the Indianapolis
Public Library in 1914, which he collaborated on with Zantzinger,
Borie, & Medary.
Cret was in France when World War I started; he remained there,
serving in the French Army, until the end of the war. He received
the Croix de Guerre and was made an officer in the Legion of Honor
for his service. When he returned to the United States, the
Roosevelt family asked Cret to design a memorial to their son, who
had died in the war. From this project, he became affiliated with
the American Battle Monuments Commission and worked with the
organization as a consultant for the remainder of his career.
During the 1920s, Cret worked on designs for the Detroit Institute
of Arts with Zantzinger, Borie, & Medary, the Frankford War
Memorial in Philadelphia, the Barnes Foundation Gallery in Merion,
Pa., and the Integrity Trust Company of Philadelphia. He worked on
the master plans for Brown University and the University of
Pennsylvania. Cret wrote articles about the Beaux-Arts style and
modernist principles of design. Throughout his career, he designed
war memorials, civic buildings, and industrial complexes.
Cret was affiliated with many organizations, among them the
American Philosophical Society, French Benevolent Society, the
National Academy of Design, the National Institute of Arts and
Letter, and the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. He served on the
Art Jury of the City of Philadelphia, the National Fine Arts
Commission for two terms, and as chairman of the American Institute
of Architects National Committee on War Memorials.
Cret received an honorary master of arts from Brown
University (1929) and honorary degrees from the University of
Pennsylvania (1913) and Harvard University (1940).
He was awarded a gold medal at the Salon des Champs Elysees in
1903, a Medal of Honor of the Architectural League of New York in
1920, and the Bok Award in 1931. He also received the Paris Grand
Prix, the Prize of Honor at the 5th Pan American Congress of
Architects at Montevideo with Zantzinger, Borie, & Medary, and
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