Architecture photographer's blog
Photographic reports on heritage architecture
Discovering the French architectural heritage by an architectural photographer.
Of the 3 Palaces created on the hill of Chaillot for the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris, Auguste Perret’s museum seems to have won the race for universality against those in Chaillot and Tokyo.
Read more
In 1923 in Paris, wealthy collector Raoul La Roche gave Le Corbusier carte blanche to adapt his colorful “purist” art to architecture.
Read more
The Eiffel Tower has donned a new golden-brown coat for the 2024 Olympic Games, giving an excuse to take a closer look.
Read more
With its sturdy trapezoids, the conference pavilion at the Maison de L’Unesco seems to have been born under a lucky star of brutalism…
Read more
For the last project of his lifetime, Le Corbusier reinvented himself to design a colorful, sculptural Brutalist UFO.
Read more
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!
Read more
In Firminy, France, Le Corbusier’s Saint-Pierre church is in the public eye, but hides some of the forgotten secrets of its design…
Read more
Architectural journey into the belly of Oscar Niemeyer’s “feminine” architecture.
Read more
In the heart of the city of Le Havre, culture is nestled in volcanoes designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
Read more
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.
Read more
In Paris La Défense, the CNIT building with its impressive concrete vault has been enclosed since the 1970s in a concrete slab district.
Read more
In Lyon, France, architect Henri Pottier designed an auditorium in a brutalist concrete shell with a bunkerized look.
Read more