06/12/2025
What happens when an architect designs their own home?
This is Le Corbusier’s apartment-studio in Paris - the top floors of Immeuble Molitor in the 16th arrondissement. Built in 1934, it was the first all-glass residential building ever made and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that you can visit by appointment through Fondation Le Corbusier.
Le Corbusier basically invented modern architecture alongside other greats like Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Frank Lloyd Wright - but his own space feels nothing like the cold minimalism you might expect.