COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Heidi Weber Pavilion
Alternate Title:
Centre Le Corbusier
Image View:
View along the southwest flank, showing enameled steel panels with glass infill
Creator:
Guillaume Jullian de la Fuente (French architect, born 1931); Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)
Location:
site: Zurich, Zürich [canton], Switzerland
Location Note:
Hoeschgasse 8
GPS:
+47.356066+8.550946
Date:
1965 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Swiss
Style Period:
Modernist; Modern; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
exhibition building
Work Type 2:
house
Classification:
architecture
Material:
enameled steel panels; glass; structural steel
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architecture; contemporary (1960 to present)
Description:
Also known as the Centre Le Corbusier, the Heidi Weber Pavilion was completed after Corbusier's death by Jullian de la Fuente and is now a (rarely open) museum and gallery. The structure of the building is in two parts: first, two cubes, with sides of enameled steel panels and glass; above them, but structurally separate, a massive gray steel umbrella or parasol. The modular construction of the cubes has proven sufficiently flexible to accommodate various uses, from the house that the building was originally designed as, to the gallery it now is and was always envisaged as becoming. Within the space available beneath the umbrella roof, the inner building can take on different configurations. (Source: Galinsky [website]; http://www.galinsky.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:
1A1-LC-WH-A7
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Heidi Weber Pavilion
