About the Modernist Architecture Walk in Paris
The first decades of the 20th century saw Paris become one of the most important sites of experimentation in architecture and design and effectively a center of gravity for the burgeoning Modernist movement. Led by architect, theoretician, and artist, Le Corbusier, the French Modernists included in their ranks Jean Prouvé, Robert Mallet-Stevens, and Charlotte Perriand.
This walk focuses on the 16th arrondissement of Paris where there is an unusually rich collection of buildings designed by Modernist architects during this period. We will proceed in a roughly chronological manner, first exploring a series of buildings designed by Art Nouveau architect, Hector Guimard, most famously known for his Paris metro signs.
Working our way to the Villa La Roche & Maison Jeanneret, designed by Le Corbusier and now the home of the Fondation Le Corbusier, we will discuss the profound influence of Le Corbusier on Parisian architecture, as well as European and American Modernism. We will then se
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The first decades of the 20th century saw Paris become one of the most important sites of experimentation in architecture and design and effectively a center of gravity for the burgeoning Modernist movement. Led by architect, theoretician, and artist, Le Corbusier, the French Modernists included in their ranks Jean Prouvé, Robert Mallet-Stevens, and Charlotte Perriand.
This walk focuses on the 16th arrondissement of Paris where there is an unusually rich collection of buildings designed by Modernist architects during this period. We will proceed in a roughly chronological manner, first exploring a series of buildings designed by Art Nouveau architect, Hector Guimard, most famously known for his Paris metro signs.
Working our way to the Villa La Roche & Maison Jeanneret, designed by Le Corbusier and now the home of the Fondation Le Corbusier, we will discuss the profound influence of Le Corbusier on Parisian architecture, as well as European and American Modernism. We will then see several structures designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens in the mid 1920s on the street to which he gave his name. Our walk will finish with a visit to either Le Corbusier's home and studio in his Molitor building, or at the life-size model of one of the apartments from his Marseille Unite d'Habitation at the Cite de l'Architecture (see the additional information below for the exact schedule)
This walk explores the structures hidden amongst Paris's more monumental works of architecture that plot the trajectory of architectural thought which would later become so thoroughly integrated into the built world that it would be impossible to imagine the form contemporary architecture would have taken without such works and the ideologies they embodied.
Please note that the cost of tickets is not included
