Villa Baizeau, a white modernist structure perched on Sainte-Monique hill overlooking the Gulf of Carthage, was the legendary French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier’s only project in Africa.

Courtesy of Carlos Eduardo Comas, via revista ArqTexto n.16 As the project evolved, Le Corbusier's ideas ultimately took precedence, either due to their merit or out of respect. It is worth ...

The Unite d’Habitation in Marseille, France was the first large scale project for the famed architect, Le Corbusier. In 1947, Europe was still feeling the effects of the Second World War ...

Le Corbusier’s Five Points of a New Architecture are transcribed ... What remains unclear is how dialogue is undertaken between countries in relation to sensitive development projects. There would be ...

Think of Carthage, and modernist architecture is unlikely to come to mind. Yet Villa Baizeau – Le Corbusier's only project in Africa – is located right here, in the historic suburb of the Tunisian ...

it was Le Corbusier's first built project outside France, a precursor to his later architectural experiments, and a manifestation of his emerging Modernist principles. Despite its modest scale ...

Le Corbusier and Jeanneret, like all other architects involved, were given schematic guidelines for the location, size, budget and program for each house. The Paris-based architects, who were busy ...

Designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret ... his success came mainly from projects for the bourgeoisie. So, when Raoul La Roche's collection grew extensive, he commissioned the architect ...

it was Le Corbusier's first built project outside France, a precursor to his later architectural experiments, and a manifestation of his emerging Modernist principles. Despite its modest scale ...

David Grandorge retrieves from his archive a photograph of a rare small project undertaken by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for The Salvation Army in the 1920s This photograph was taken on Monday, ...

Mr. Doshi spent about three years in Paris working on the High Court and the Governor’s Palace, parts of Le Corbusier’s vast new capital complex in Chandigarh, and three projects in Ahmedabad ...