LE CORBUSIER ARCHITECTURE MODELS

Le Corbusier remains the most argued-about architect of the twentieth century. Whether you admire him unreservedly or hold reservations about his larger urban visions, the buildings themselves are beyond dispute — rigorous, radical, and unlike anything that came before them.

What makes our collection of three Le Corbusier models particularly compelling is how different they are from one another. The Villa Savoye (1929) is pure doctrine: pilotis, ribbon windows, roof terrace, free plan — his Five Points of Architecture made manifest in white concrete outside Poissy. The Unité d'Habitation in Marseille (1952) is something altogether more muscular — a city compressed into a single building, raw béton brut on an enormous scale. And then there is Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (1955): a chapel that abandons rationalism entirely, its curved roof peeling upward, its thick walls punctured by irregular windows that flood the interior with coloured light. It is one of the most emotionally powerful buildings of the twentieth century, and a deliberate act of self-contradiction by its architect.

Together, the three span a career and an argument. Each model is cast in fine plaster and finished by hand in our West Sussex studio.