In the 1950s, Josep Lluís Sert created the vast studio of his friend Joan Miró, also Catalan, in Palma de Mallorca. Aimé Maeght, Miró’s gallerist and editor since 1947, decided to entrust his major project to him: the creation of the first private foundation, recognized for its public utility, dedicated to the visual arts in Europe. Josep Lluís Sert was active from the late 1920s in groups of avant-garde artists and Catalan and Spanish architects, joining Le Corbusier in 1928 in Paris to work at his side. He would assist in the creation of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (1962), the only building made in the USA by Le Corbusier
The site, on a hill full of pines near Saint-Paul de Vence, with privileged views of the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea and Cape Antibes, proposed an important use of outdoor spaces. That is why the project decidedly bets on working on a scale intimately related to the environment, articulating spaces and volumes in a way similar to a village. The complex consists of three main buildings connected and organised by means of courtyards and gardens, which are also projected as places designed for the exhibition. In this way, the artists contributed works conceived expressly for these spaces, achieving, moreover, a close collaboration between them from their first sketches.
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In the 1950s, Josep Lluís Sert created the vast studio of his friend Joan Miró, also Catalan, in Palma de Mallorca. Aimé Maeght, Miró’s gallerist and editor since 1947, decided to entrust his major project to him: the creation of the first private foundation, recognized for its public utility, dedicated to the visual arts in Europe. Josep Lluís Sert was active from the late 1920s in groups of avant-garde artists and Catalan and Spanish architects, joining Le Corbusier in 1928 in Paris to work at his side. He would assist in the creation of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (1962), the only building made in the USA by Le Corbusier
The site, on a hill full of pines near Saint-Paul de Vence, with privileged views of the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea and Cape Antibes, proposed an important use of outdoor spaces. That is why the project decidedly bets on working on a scale intimately related to the environment, articulating spaces and volumes in a way similar to a village. The complex consists of three main buildings connected and organised by means of courtyards and gardens, which are also projected as places designed for the exhibition. In this way, the artists contributed works conceived expressly for these spaces, achieving, moreover, a close collaboration between them from their first sketches.
More info (and photo source): https://www.fondation-maeght.com/en/maeght-foundation/architecture
Crossposted from /r/ModernistArchitecture