Contribution une thorie

de larchitecture

Auguste Perret (1874-1954)

TECHNIQUE = TRIBUTE TO NATURE = SOURCE OF INSPIRATION

ARCHITECTURE = ART OF ORGANIZING THE SPACE, EXPRESSED BY CONSTRUCTION

PERMANENT: THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY

NATURE.
CLIMATE, MATERIALS, STABILITY, PHYSICAL LAWS,
OPTICS, DEFORMATIONS, LINES AND SHAPES.

TRANSITORY: THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY MAN.

FUNCTION, USES, REGULATIONS, FASHION.

ARCHITECT = BUILDER THAT MEETS THE TRANSITORY, USING THE PERMANENT.

BUILDING STRUCTURE = ANIMAL BONE STRUCTURE

COMPOSED, RHYTMIC, BALANCED, SYMMETRIC

ABLE TO CONTAIN THE SERVICES REQUIRED BY ITS

FUNCTION

HONEST STRUCTURE = MOST BEAUTIFUL ORNAMENT

FALSE PILAR = CRIME

 O edifcio a estrutura dotada dos elementos

e das formas impostas pelos condicionamentos
permanentes que
submetendo-o Natureza
o ligam ao passado e lhe conferem durabilidade.

The building is the structure with the elements

and the shapes imposed by the permanent
conditionants that
Submited to the Nature
connects it to the past and gives it durability.

 Satisfeitos os condicionamentos transitrios

e os condicionamentos permanentes,
submetido pois ao homem e a Natureza
ter carcter, estilo, harmonia, ter demarcado o caminho
que,
por meio da Verdade conduz beleza.

Satisfied the transitory conditionants

and the permanent conditionants,
submited to the man and to the Nature
will have caracter, style, harmony, will have marked
the path that,
by the way of the Truth conducts to beauty.

 A Verdade
est em tudo aquilo que tem a honra e o encargo
de suportar e de proteger.
Esta Verdade, a proporo
que far brilhar
e a proporo
o prprio homem.
The Truth
is in all of it that has the honor and the responsibility
of support and protect.
This Truth, is the proportion
that will make shine
and the proportion
is the man himself.

 Tcnica, ()
que expressa em poesia,
conduz
Arquitectura.

Technics, ()
that expressed in poetry,
conducts to
Architecture.