Архивы Modern architecture - SKETCHLINE

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This is a Dominican Order monastery on a hillside near Lyon, France, and one of the most important buildings of the late Modernist style. It contains a church, one hundred bedrooms for teachers and students, study halls, an office and hall for relaxation, a library and a refectory.

1953 - 1960

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This is a Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France. It is one of the most important examples of twentieth-century religious architecture. The chapel was build to replace another chapel which had been constructed in the 8th century and broken by a thunderbolt in 1913.

1950 - 1955

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This is an apartment building in Geneva, one of Le Corbusier's key early projects, in which he explored the principles of modernist architecture in apartment buildings. It has eight storeys and comprises 45 free plan units of diverse configurations and sizes.

1930 - 1932

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This house was built for Le Corbusier's parents on the hills in La Chaux-de-Fonds. This building is also known as Maison Blanche and Villa Jeanneret-Perret. It was completely renovated in 2005.

1912