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Close-up on 4 windows of the Lyon Auditorium

The Lyon Auditorium, a pillbox for classical music

05/31/202210/02/2022

In Lyon, France, architect Henri Pottier designed an auditorium in a brutalist concrete shell with a bunkerized look.

Photo of the stairs of the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin near Paris, France

The “Centre National de la Danse” of Pantin, by Jacques Kalisz

04/26/202209/07/2022

In Pantin near Paris, Jacques Kalisz designed an original brutalist work with Aztec motifs that was transformed in the 21st century into the French National Dance Center.

The hidden architecture of the Lugdunum museum in Lyon, France

03/07/202205/07/2022

In Lyon, France, for the former Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization, architect Bernard Zehrfuss hid his brutalist architecture inside a hill.

Prefabricated concrete openings in the façade of a building in the Flaine resort

The ski resort of Flaine, Marcel Breuer’s architecture at the summit

01/24/202209/15/2022

During a ski trip in the French Alps a few years ago, I discovered this amazing 50 years old brutalist ski resort designed by the architect Marcel Breuer.

The Orgues de flandre photographed by Thierry Allard

Relatoscopy of the brutalist “Orgues de Flandre”

11/08/202112/17/2021

Large housing complex of brutalist inspiration in the heart of Paris, the Orgues de Flandres play an original score.

White "Gratte-ciel" (skyscraper) house by Le Corbusier in the cité Frugès near Bordeaux

Le Corbusier’s artwork for the “Cité Frugès”

10/09/202108/19/2022

With the Cité Frugès, Le Corbusier realizes the utopia of the Modern Movement: to conceive the dwelling of the poor as he would conceive the house of the rich…

Detail of a brutalist facade in fluted concrete

In search of fluted concrete in Bordeaux, France

09/16/202110/02/2022

Bordeaux is not known for its brutalist architecture, except for the old bank in the Mériadeck district and maybe the future “Kanelé”…

Architectural ballad at the Villa Savoye of Le Corbusier

Architectural promenade at the Villa Savoye

08/23/202112/08/2021

The interior design of the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier responds to the architect’s desire to highlight his precepts concerning new architecture.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier by the architectural photographer T.Allard

The Villa Savoye, new architecture by Le Corbusier

07/31/202101/12/2022

30 km west of Paris, the Villa Savoye by architect Jean Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, has remained a splendid avant-garde house which was built according to 5 points of architecture.