Photographic reports on heritage architecture
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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What is hidden behind the apparent lightness of the black mesh veil of the Mucem by architect Rudi Ricciotti?
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In Lyon, France, architect Henri Pottier designed an auditorium in a brutalist concrete shell with a bunkerized look.
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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.
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In Lyon, France, for the former Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization, architect Bernard Zehrfuss hid his brutalist architecture inside a hill.
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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.
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The Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France, nicknamed the “crystal cloud” by its designer, architect Wolf D. Prix, deploys a chaotic and controversial deconstructivist architecture.
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Large housing complex of brutalist inspiration in the heart of Paris, the Orgues de Flandres play an original score.
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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…
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Bordeaux is not known for its brutalist architecture, except for the old bank in the Mériadeck district and maybe the future “Kanelé”…
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The interior design of the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier responds to the architect’s desire to highlight his precepts concerning new architecture.
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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.
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