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Brutalist architecture in France (4 P) L. Le Corbusier buildings (2 C, 23 P, 1 F) Le Corbusier buildings in France (1 C, 26 P, 7 F) N. Jean Nouvel buildings (27 P)
Villa Savoye (French pronunciation:) is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France.It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.
Les Espaces d'Abraxas is a high-density housing complex in Noisy-le-Grand, approximately 12 km (7.5 mi) from Paris, France. [1] The building was designed by architect Ricardo Bofill and his architecture practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) in 1978 [2] on behalf of the French government, [3] during a period of increased urbanisation across France after World War II. [4]
The Grands Projets of François Mitterrand (variants: Grands Travaux [ɡʁɑ̃ tʁavo] or Grands Projets Culturels [ɡʁɑ̃ pʁɔʒɛ kyltyʁɛl]; officially: Grandes Opérations d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme [ɡʁɑ̃dz‿ɔpeʁasjɔ̃ daʁʃitɛktyʁ e dyʁbanism]) was an architectural programme to provide modern monuments in Paris, the city of monuments, symbolising France's role in art ...
Paul Cavrois (1890-1965) was a textile industrialist from northern France who owned modern factories for spinning, weaving and dyeing cotton and wool. In the early 1920s he bought a site located on the hill of Beaumont, in Croix, not far from his factories situated in Roubaix, in order to build a mansion able to receive his family of 7 children and the servants.
The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France. [1] It is a branch of Pompidou arts centre of Paris, and features semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions from the large collection of the French National Museum of Modern Art, the largest European collection of 20th and 21st century arts.
French Creole architecture is an American Colonial style that developed in the early 18th century in the Mississippi Valley, especially in Louisiana. French Creole buildings borrow traditions from France, the Caribbean, and many other parts of the world such as Spanish, African, Native American, and other heritages. French Creole homes from the ...
Tropical Modernism, or Tropical Modern is a style of architecture that merges modernist architecture principles with tropical vernacular traditions, emerging in the mid-20th century. The term is used to describe modernist architecture in various regions of the world, including Latin America, Asia and Africa, as detailed below.