atelier brancusi

address: place georges pompidou, paris, france

architect: renzo piano building workshop

year: 1995 / 97

pont charles de gaulle

address: quai d´austerlitz, paris, france
architects: louis arretche, roman karasinski
year: 1993 / 96

24 rue feydeau

address: 24 rue feydeau, paris, france
architect: fernand colin
year: 1932

cinéma rex

address: 1 boulevard poissonniére, paris, france
architects: auguste bluysen, john eberson
year: 1931 / 32

passage marché saint honoré

address: place du marché saint honoré, paris, france
architect: ricardo bofill
year: 1986 / 96

forum des halles

address: rue rambuteau, rue pierre-lescot, rue berger
architects: claude vasconi, georges pencreac´h, jacques bouton, paul chemetov
year: 1971 / 86

palais de chaillot

address: place du trocadero, paris, france
architects: léon azema, louis-hippolyte boileau, jacques carlu
year: 1935 / 37

116b avenue des champs élysées

address: 116b avenue des champs élysées, paris, france
architect: jean desbouis
year: 1928 / 1932

memorial des martyrs de la déportation

address: square de l´ille de la cité, paris, france
architects: georges-henry pingusson, olivier dugas
year: 1961 / 62

tour mirabeau

address: 39 quai andré citroën, paris, france
architect: noël le maresquier et pierre-paul heckly
year: 1972

opera de la bastille

address: place de la bastille, paris, france
architect: carlos ott
year: 1983 / 89

cité internationale

address: quai charles de gaulle, lyon, france
architect: renzo piano building workshop
year: 1985 / 1998

piscine du rhone

address: 8 quai claude bernard, lyon, france
architect: alexandre audouze-tabourin
year: 1961 / 1965

patinoire charlemagne

address: 100 cours charlemagne, lyon, france
architects: christian batton, robert roustit
year: 1967 / 69

gare de saint-exupery tgv

address: aeroport saint-exupery, lyon, france
architect: santiago calatrava
year: 1994

couvent de sainte-marie de la tourette

address: eveaux-sur-l´abresle, france
architect: le corbusier
date: 1957 / 1960

Get off from the train in L'Abresle in a summer day, and walk three kilometres to La  Tourette. First, stone houses, then the frightful French chalets -that nevertheless do a charming suburb- and later the field and the farms. Ultimately, the forest and an orange little sign that stops your heart: "Au couvent". 

The forest is so dense, and ultimately, the miracle of Architecture. How could Le C. think this way? After two hours rounding the Dominicans cells, the library, the refectory, in the edge of the forest, at the foot of the hill, in a stone´s bank I thought: The architecture makes sense to the landscape. I believe L'Abresle's horizon never sees better that across the plates of cement in the refectory, and never the hill is more beautiful when is under 1000 tons of concrete of Le C.

 

Bajarse del tren en L´Abresle un día de verano y emprender los tres kilómetros que llevan a La Tourette. Primero casas de piedra, después los espantosos chalets franceses -que sin embargo hacen un suburbio encantador- y después el campo y las granjas. Al final, el bosque y un cartelito anaranjado que te detiene el corazón: "Au couvent".
 

El bosque se hace más denso, y al final, el milagro de la arquitectura. ¿Como pudo pensar así, Le C.? ¿De donde sacó las medidas de la iglesia? Después de dos horas dando vueltas por las celdas de los dominicos, por la biblioteca, por el refectorio, en el borde del bosque, al pie de la colina, en un banco de piedra se entiende algo: La arquitectura le da sentido al paisaje. Creo que nunca se ve mejor el horizonte de L´Abresle que a través de las placas de cemento del refectorio, y nunca es más hermosa la colina que cuando pasa debajo de las 1000 toneladas de hormigón de Le C.

stade le corbusier

address: rue des noyers, firminy, france
architects: le corbusier, andré wogenscky, fernand gardien
year: 1966. 1968

maison de la culture

address: rue de saint-just-malmont, firminy, france
architect: le corbusier
year: 1961. 1965

piscine andré wogenscky

address: rue des carriéres, firminy, france
architect: andré wogenscky
year: 1969 / 1971

église saint-pierre

address: rue des noyers, firminy, france
architect: le corbusier
year: 1960 / 2006