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Cret, Paul Philippe

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Cret, Paul Philippe (1876-1945)

French-born US architect and educator who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1903. Particularly prolific during the 1920s, he designed civic and memorial buildings in a modern classical style adapted to steel-frame construction.

He was born in Lyons, France, and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. His work includes the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, from 1928-32. Cret was professor of design at the University of Pennsylvania 1903-37. He received the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal in 1938.
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