
The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy
S1E49 · 2011-11-13 · 26 min
In a country ruined by World War I, Auguste Perret took up the challenge of building a church. In concrete. It was a shunned material, used hitherto exclusively in industrial construction. This "Holy Chapel of Concrete" revolutionized architectural vocabulary.
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