The Parish Priest at Le Raincy

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After the First World War ended, the parish priest at Le Raincy decided to build a new church to honor fallen soldiers. But the country was ruined and the clergy's coffers were empty. Architect Auguste Perret took up the double challenge of urgency and budget. Building quickly and cheaply at that period meant building with reinforced concrete-a material considered shameful and only fit for industrial use. Thirteen months of work on site was enough to build this, "Concrete Holy Chapel", a magnificent demonstration of the plastic and constructive qualities of this material and a splendid lesson from an architect, for a time forgotten, who revolutionized the language of architecture.