The Maisons Jaoul are two, almost identical, villas situated in Paris and were built for M. André Jaoul and his eldest son. The general design dates way back to 1937, with it taking its final form reportedly in 1951. The maisons Jaoul can be understood as the real turning point for the practice of Le Corbusier, after his gradual, post-villa Savoye drift away from the devotion to his own 5 points for a new architecture.
Brick, concrete and wood participate in a hierarchy of tectonics and grids that are worlds apart from the white abstraction of extra-thin wall and wide window present in the 20’s. The toit-terrasse gives way to the Catalan vault, going back to a fundamental, almost primitive, concavity. This construction system also means the end of the plan libre, with the imposed hierarchy of load-bearing longitudinal walls. Without columns, the façade libre and the horizontal windows are replaced with an almost mysterious heterogeneity of concrete, brick, stone and glass.
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The Maisons Jaoul are two, almost identical, villas situated in Paris and were built for M. André Jaoul and his eldest son. The general design dates way back to 1937, with it taking its final form reportedly in 1951. The maisons Jaoul can be understood as the real turning point for the practice of Le Corbusier, after his gradual, post-villa Savoye drift away from the devotion to his own 5 points for a new architecture.
Brick, concrete and wood participate in a hierarchy of tectonics and grids that are worlds apart from the white abstraction of extra-thin wall and wide window present in the 20’s. The toit-terrasse gives way to the Catalan vault, going back to a fundamental, almost primitive, concavity. This construction system also means the end of the plan libre, with the imposed hierarchy of load-bearing longitudinal walls. Without columns, the façade libre and the horizontal windows are replaced with an almost mysterious heterogeneity of concrete, brick, stone and glass.
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