Exploiting the plastic and technical possibilities of concrete, the Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier is a revolutionary housing unit, a concrete structure on stilts into which duplex apartments and services are inserted. To the regular frame of its facade, with its prefabricated concrete sunbreakers, sculptural shapes on the roof respond, like its large chimney. Inside and outside the building, the architect has developed a chromatic approach to space, starting from the primary colors that cover the interior of the loggias and the doors of the apartments.

Born in 1887 in Switzerland, and disappeared in 1965, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, is an architect and urban planner known for his ability to make architecture a total art. He thinks of the building, the interior design, both in terms of furnishing and comfort, and takes into account the urban planning dimension of all his achievements. He remains unquestionably one of the most emblematic figures of the modern movement.

Throughout his career, Le Corbusier shared his visions and theories through his participation in international exhibitions such as that of 1925, where he presented the Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau, and that of 1937, with its Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux.

Defender of modernism and rejecting the decorative arts, Le Corbusier inscribes his architectural thought in his villas, more particularly in the Villa Savoye in 1928, where he theorizes the “five points of modern architecture” (the stilts, the roof terrace, the strip windows, the free facade and the free plan).

Although he was one of the most prolific architects of his time, many of his projects never saw the light of day, such as the “Plan Voisin” or the contemporary city of three million inhabitants. Sometimes too polemical or radical in the eyes of the general public, the work of Le Corbusier however knows an international resonance. His last major project was given to him by the city of Chandigarh, in India. He is responsible for directing the entire urban planning work for the creation of the new capital of Punjab, where he mixes raw concrete and lush vegetation.