Villa La Roche

Villa La Roche stands as a quiet but revolutionary landmark in the sixteenth arrondissement, commissioned by the Swiss banker and avant-garde art collector Raoul La Roche. In the early nineteen twenties, he asked the architect Le Corbusier to design a space that functioned as both a private home and a dedicated gallery for his growing collection of modern paintings. This dual purpose forced a complete rethink of how a house should be organized, leading to a structure that feels less like a traditional residence and more like a carefully orchestrated sequence of experiences. When you approach the villa, you are looking at one of the first true experiments in the modernist language that would go on to shape architecture for the rest of the twentieth century.