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Claude Nicolas Ledoux’s propositions for a House of Pleasure in Paris and the ideal city of Chaux are enigmatic projects recognized by their unmistakably phallic configurations. The phallic floor plan of the Oikema offers a piece of information to decipher the ideal city of Chaux as a fragment of the human anatomy. Reacting to the exigencies of the revolution, Ledoux…
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While French newspaper publisher Jean-François Lemoine was looking for an architect to design a new home, he became partially paralyzed from a car accident. Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas designed the house in 1998 to accommodate an active family man confined to a wheelchair.
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Le Corbusier designed Sainte Marie de La Tourette Monastery in 1960 for a Dominican Order priory in a valley near Lyon, France. The Dominican Order convent sinks into the edge of a forest in a small valley and it is one of the greatest works of Modernism produced. Rough concrete stained by time gives an exterior unfamiliar to religious structures.
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The “Festival des Architectures Vives” is an architectural festival for the general public to discover or rediscover the historical landmarks of the city of Montpellier and the city of La Grande Motte. The festival also gives the opportunity to young architects from all over the world to build their first project. This year young Architects are Jeremy Germe and Chloé Thomazo.
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Paris Rooftops is a continuation of Wolf’s life-long fascination with architecture and urban life, this time taking the viewer to Paris, where he moved part-time with his family in 2008. I was used to the excitement and constant change in Asia. It was so difficult to find something [in Paris]. The Haussmannian Architecture didn’t interest me because it was more…
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Designed by Marchi Architects in 2015 the Chestnuts House has asymetrical volumetry to maintain balance with the existing buildings.
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The Japanese Architect Shigeru Ban was among the designers chosen for the Réinventer Paris competition. The competition asked for proposals to revive 23 sites throughout the city of Paris. Shigeru ban submitted a design for an area of land in paris’ 4th arrondissement.
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