Maison La Roche, Le Corbusier’s first architectural promenade
In 1923 in Paris, wealthy collector Raoul La Roche gave Le Corbusier carte blanche to adapt his colorful “purist” art to architecture.
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Author: th.al
The Eiffel Tower struts its stuff over Paname’s macadam
The Eiffel Tower has donned a new golden-brown coat for the 2024 Olympic Games, giving an excuse to take a closer look.
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Unesco House in Paris, a point of convergence
With its sturdy trapezoids, the conference pavilion at the Maison de L’Unesco seems to have been born under a lucky star of brutalism…
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The Maison de la Culture in Firminy, a Le Corbusier landmark
For the last project of his lifetime, Le Corbusier reinvented himself to design a colorful, sculptural Brutalist UFO.
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The Firminy workers’ Unité d’habitation
At Firminy, green is the fruit of Le Corbusier’s imagination, as his architecture places more importance on space and sunlight than on concrete, which is very much in evidence!
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Modulor, Le Corbusier’s navel of the world
In architecture as elsewhere, the ideal man does not exist. Yet the Corbusier believed to be able to invent it and hope to impose it on the world of construction…
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In the shadow of Le Corbusier’s iconic church
In Firminy, France, Le Corbusier’s Saint-Pierre church is in the public eye, but hides some of the forgotten secrets of its design…
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Espace Niemeyer in Paris, sensual architecture unveiled
Architectural journey into the belly of Oscar Niemeyer’s “feminine” architecture.
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“Le Volcan”: Oscar Niemeyer’s poetic architecture in the city of Le Havre
In the heart of the city of Le Havre, culture is nestled in volcanoes designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
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Post-war Le Havre, anchored in concrete by Auguste Perret
In the city of Le Havre, France, Auguste Perret’s architectural studio produced a Brutalist masterpiece, the Church of St. Joseph, in the heart of a city with standardized architecture.
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The brutalist CNIT building at Paris La Défense
In Paris La Défense, the CNIT building with its impressive concrete vault has been enclosed since the 1970s in a concrete slab district.
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The “bird” train station of Lyon Saint-Exupéry
In 2020, during the period of deconfinement when our train stations and airports remained deserted, I took advantage of this unique moment to revisit the organic architecture of the Lyon Saint-Exupéry TGV station.
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