Le Corbusier, Guiette, Antwerp, Belgium, 1926 (View from google)

Description:

Guiette House, designed by Le Corbusier in 1926 is located in Antwerp, Belgium. This house was projected for René Guiette, a painter. Guiette House could be considered one of the purists houses made by Le Corbusier, in which was applied the five points of Modern Architecture – pilotis elevating the mass off the ground, free plan, free facade, long horizontal windows and roof garden. This house has a cellar and three more floors. It has a very large in the principal facade for the studio of the painter. The long and narrow shape of the plot reminds the typically Belgian house.

References:

http://whc.unesco.org/fr/listesindicatives/2025/

http://www.sites-le-corbusier.org/fr/maison-guiette

Reviewed by:

Alexandra Niedermayr, Alexandre Maurel, Martin Charachon, Sonja Schneider (March 2017)