Fondation suisse
Fondation Suisse stands at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris as a student residence designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Swiss students shaped its original purpose, while residents and visitors encounter a building rooted in modernist architecture.
Built between 1930 and 1931 with funding from Swiss universities, the pavilion combines a single-storey section with a slab raised on piloti. Its southern façade uses vivid colours from Le Corbusier’s evolving palette. Charlotte Perriand designed the furniture, and Le Corbusier added a large mural to the salon courbe in 1948.
That mural replaced an earlier work damaged during the Second World War. Cultural events give residents and visitors a shared setting for learning, tolerance, respect, and solidarity. Classified as a historic monument in 1986, the curved salon and elevated slab leave the clearest impression of a modern building lifted above the ground.
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