Cite de Refuge-Le Corbusier-Paris

With a little planning and a Metro pass, fans of architect Le Corbusier can spend a full day in Paris visiting some of his most iconic works. Some are open for visits, others not, but all the ones listed below are easily visible and can all be seen in one day or two if you want to head out to the suburbs and add the iconic Villa Savoye to your list. Make sure you do the visits on a Saturday if you want to go inside Immeuble Molitor, Le Corbusier’s studio-apartment in Boulogne-Billancourt, just outside Paris.

1. Maison la Roche

Le Corbusier Maison la Roche Paris

Start your day on the western side of Paris, in the 16th arrondissement at the Maison la Roche. Designed and built between 1923 and 1925 to show a collector’s extensive collection of modern art, it was one of his first experimental houses and demonstrates what Le Corbusier later identified as his “Five Points of a New Architecture” – a building elevated on stilts, with a roof garden, horizontal strip windows, an open plan layout and free design of the façade, all made possible by his use of new materials such as concrete. The Maison la Roche is a wonderful example of one of Le Corbusier’s first purist villa.

Le Corbusier-Villa La Roche-Paris