Le Corbusier - Villa La Roche - Paris, France
N 48° 51.083 E 002° 15.922
31U E 446107 N 5411195
Villa La Roche was built as a home for Raoul La Roche that among other things would serve as a private gallery to display La Roche's extensive art collection.
Waymark Code: WM31HX
Location: France
Date Posted: 01/26/2008
Views: 208
Built in a private Paris courtyard, the house had major constraints imposed by the site and its zoning restrictions, including a north orientation, existing trees and height and boundary limitations.
The interior of Villa La Roche can be visited Monday 13:30 - 18:00 and Tuesday - Friday 10:00 - 12:30, 13:30 - 17:00.
Metro Station : Jasmin
Address : 10 square du Docteur-Blanche, 75016 (16th arrondissement).
In 1923, wanting to give his collection a suitable context, La Roche commissioned his friend Le Corbusier to build a residence in Auteuil in the west of Paris. Today it is considered one of the founding icons of Modern Architecture. Among its most salient features are the large vestibule with its several views as it extends through the house from top to bottom; the interior colour scheme; and the gallery space, set at right angles to the body of the building, for which Le Corbusier’s first made use of stilts (pilotis) to raise a structure off the ground. In designing the villa for La Roche, Le Corbusier spoke for the first time of a promenade architecturale, which was to become a key concept of his œuvre. The La Roche Villa immediately attracted widespread attention upon its completion; it was soon visited by such people as architect Adolf Loos, artist Fernand Léger, architectural historian Sigfried Giedion, and all those interested in the New Architecture. In fact, the house drew so many visitors that Raoul La Roche officially opened it to the public for two days a week. When he returned to Basel in 1962, he gave the villa to the Fondation Le Corbusier
Architect: Le Corbusier
Building Type: Residential
Date Built: 1923
City building is located in: Paris
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