Le corbusier - Maison Jaoul

The Maison Jaoul consists of two houses defined by their heavy, vaulted brick ceilings and rough, unpainted concrete surfaces. Le Corbusier designed these dwellings in the early nineteen fifties for André Jaoul and his son. Before this commission, the architect was famous for white, machine-like villas. Here, he broke from his own tradition by using exposed brickwork and Catalan vaults. The project sparked a fierce debate among his colleagues, who saw the raw, tactile masonry as a betrayal of his earlier modernist principles.