Editing Auguste Perret (section)

==Later life, honors and legacy==
[[File:Auguste Perret.jpg|thumb|Bust of Auguste Perret in Paris]]
Among the many young architects who worked in the office of Perret from 1908 to 1910 was Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who later became known as [[Le Corbusier]]; it was his first experience in an architectural firm.

From 1940, Perret taught at the [[École des Beaux-Arts]].  He won the [[Royal Gold Medal]] in 1948 and the [[AIA Gold Medal]] in 1952. His work was also part of the [[Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics#Architecture|architecture event]] in the [[Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics|art competition]] at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920386 |title=Auguste Perret |work=Olympedia |access-date=20 August 2020}}</ref>

Perret also served as a juror with [[Florence Meyer Blumenthal]] in awarding the [[Prix Blumenthal]], a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.<ref name="FMBlumenthal">{{cite web
  | title = Florence Meyer Blumenthal
  | publisher = Jewish Women's Archive, Michele Siegel 
  | url = http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/blumenthal-florence-meyer}}</ref>

In 1998, the [[Perret tower (Grenoble)|Perret Tower]] in Grenoble was declared a national heritage site by France.

In 2005, his reconstruction of Le Havre was declared a World Heritage Site by [[UNESCO]].