Fondation Le Corbusier is a private foundation and archive honoring the work of architect
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...
. It operates Maison La Roche, a museum located in the
16th arrondissement at 8-10, square du Dr Blanche,
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...
, France, which is open daily except Sunday. The Maison La Roche was temporarily closed for renovation in 2008–2009.
History
The Fondation Le Corbusier was established in 1968. It now owns
Villa La Roche and
Villa Jeanneret (which form the foundation's headquarters), as well as the apartment occupied by Le Corbusier from 1933 to 1965 at rue Nungesser et Coli in Paris 16e, and
Villa Le Lac, which he built for his parents in
Corseaux
Corseaux is a municipality in the district Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Corseaux is first mentioned in 1179 as ''de Corsal''.
Geography
Corseaux has an area, , of . Of this area, or 21.7% is used for ...
on the shores of
Lac Leman (1924).
Building
Maison La Roche and Maison Jeanneret (1923–24), also known as the La Roche-Jeanneret house, is a pair of semi-detached houses that was Corbusier's third commission in Paris. They are laid out at right angles to each other, with iron, concrete, and blank, white facades setting off a curved two-story gallery space. Maison La Roche is now a museum containing about 8,000 original drawings, studies and plans by Le Corbusier (in collaboration with
Pierre Jeanneret from 1922 to 1940), as well as about 450 of his paintings, about 30 enamels, about 200 other works on paper, and a sizable collection of written and photographic archives. It describes itself as the world's largest collection of Le Corbusier drawings, studies, and plans.
See also
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Raoul Albert La Roche (Swiss donator and collector of art)
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Villa La Roche
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List of single-artist museums
This is a list of single-artist museums, which are museums displaying the work of, or bearing the name of, a single visual artist.
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References
External links
Official Site
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Le Corbusier
1968 establishments in France
Buildings and structures in the 16th arrondissement of Paris