5. Pavillon Suisse

Pavillon Suisse

Head up through the beautiful Parc Montsouris, and into the Cité Universitaire, the international halls of residence for the Paris universities. First stop is the Pavillon Suisse, designed and built between 1930 and 1933. A metallic structure built on stilts, it develops Le Corbusier’s theory of a “machine for living.” The rooms are set on the top 3 corridors and the ground floor communal areas are decorated with murals and furniture by Le Corbusier. You can visit the ground floor for 2 euros.

Photo by Siobhan Pitchfork