BRUTALISM

The Maisons Jaoul were designed in 1951 and built between 1954 and 1956, in the middle stage of Le Corbusier brutalist. In this same period pertein all buildings Le Corbusier designed for the Hindu city of Chandigarh and the convent of Sainte Marie de La Tourette, which were built during the 50s and 60s.

The brutalist stage of Le Corbusier (or '' béton brut '', as he defined it), which was the last of the Swiss architect, began after the end of World War II and was characterized by the use of reinforced concrete without paint or decorate.

 (The building of the secretariat of Chandigarh, example of brutalist architecture)

At this stage, Le Corbusier changed several elements that had been key to its previous architecture, among which were the use of white to paint the facades of buildings (at this time he left the gray concrete is exposed) and strict each of the five points for a new architecture compliance (the Maison Jaoul violate the first of these principles)

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