Maison La Roche stands in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, designed by Le Corbusier together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and built between 1923 and 1925 for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and art collector who commissioned both a private residence and a gallery wing to display his collection of Cubist and Purist paintings. The house is considered a key early demonstration of the architectural principles Le Corbusier was then formulating, built in reinforced concrete and raised on pilotis, with elongated ribbon windows and a roof garden, and its interior circulation was deliberately composed to be experienced from staged fixed viewpoints as visitors moved through the gallery spaces. In 2016 UNESCO included the house within a joint World Heritage inscription covering seventeen works by Le Corbusier across several countries, recognizing its place in the emergence of modern architecture. The house now operates as a museum under the Fondation Le Corbusier, holding roughly 8,000 original drawings and studies alongside some 450 paintings and extensive archival material documenting Le Corbusier's work between 1922 and 1940.
Facts
Building Type Location10, square du Docteur Blanche, 75016 Paris, France 1 Completed Year Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Maison La Roche - Wikipedia
Lead section, second sentence
La Roche commissioned Le Corbusier to build a villa as well as a gallery to house his art collection.
Infobox, location row
Location: Paris, France, 10, square du Docteur Blanche 75016
Lead section, first sentence
Villa La Roche, also Maison La Roche, is a house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in 1923-1925.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Maison La Roche stands in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, designed by Le Corbusier together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and built between 1923 and 1925 for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and art collector who commissioned both a private residence and a gallery wing to display his collection of Cubist and Purist paintings. The house is considered a key early demonstration of the architectural principles Le Corbusier was then formulating, built in reinforced concrete and raised on pilotis, with elongated ribbon windows and a roof garden, and its interior circulation was deliberately composed to be experienced from staged fixed viewpoints as visitors moved through the gallery spaces. In 2016 UNESCO included the house within a joint World Heritage inscription covering seventeen works by Le Corbusier across several countries, recognizing its place in the emergence of modern architecture. The house now operates as a museum under the Fondation Le Corbusier, holding roughly 8,000 original drawings and studies alongside some 450 paintings and extensive archival material documenting Le Corbusier's work between 1922 and 1940.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Maison La Roche
- Wikidata Q3278824, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q3278824, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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