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Purist style in architecture refers to the aesthetic principles developed by Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant in their 1920s manifesto Purism, which called for clarity, geometric precision, and the elimination of ornament in favour of machine-age efficiency and universalist beauty. Purism informed Le Corbusier’s early villas and the foundations of the International Style, shaping the visual language of modernism throughout the 20th century.
Completed in 1922 on a narrow parcel in Paris, the Ozenfant House and Studio translates the Purist preoccupations of Le Corbusier and painter Amédée Ozenfant into a compact urban dwelling…
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Designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, La Villa La Roche stands as a seminal work in the annals of modern architecture. One of the 17 buildings by Le Corbusier…
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