Au Revoir (for only a few days) Paris!

More ramps by Le Corbusier

Inspirational Sketches

Well we are leaving the city for 3 days to head to Lyon where we will be studying the Lyon Opera House, La Tourette (which is a monastery just outside of Lyon where we will actually be spending the night- not entirely sure how I feel about this!), and visiting Ronchamp and the famous Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut (I'm super excited about this!)  In the meantime, I added a few photos from our excursion this morning.  We visited Corbusier's Maison La Roche here in Paris.  This is another great house and has many similarities to Villa Savoye, however this was more of an experiment for Corbusier to introduce his 5 points mentioned in the blog about Villa Savoye.  Maison La Roche was designed to be a house and an art gallery, which works well with Corbusier's point of having a free plan.  Also, I think I will always appreciate the effect that light has on his architecture and vice versa. 

I better get packing as we leave bright and early tomorrow! More posts to come on Sunday....