Between Brazil and Le Corbusier, connecting pieces

When Le Corbusier flew over Rio de Janeiro, where he went for the first time in 1929 for a series of conferences in Brazil, he was struck by the image the city gave him. Above all, by its coexistence with the nature that surrounded it. He imagined and drew up a plan where an elevated highway , "taken simply from the spirit of the times, that is to say, from above," would embrace the site and the landscape. "Gigantic viaducts on reinforced concrete structures that would constitute offices in the center and housing on the outskirts," he wrote. The highway would never be built . The links between the architect and Brazil, however, would remain strong.

The exhibition "Brazil after Le Corbusier" is held in the admirable blue and brown La Roche house, built by the architect between 1923 and 1925 in the Jasmin district of Paris and which already contains all the principles that would form the founding work of