Social, economic, constructive, environmental and
climates which, at the beginning of the 21st century, called into question the foundations
of the architectural project, constitute the theoretical background of the events
dedicated to the villa that Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret built in
Carthage on behalf of Lucien Baizeau, Blanche Thiéblin and their
family.
The book is organized according to two complementary analytical perspectives.
The first is devoted to the history of the villa and allows you to understand it
fully the reasons and meanings, the genesis, the theoretical importance,
the role of the sponsor and the family joys provided by its spaces, in
the aim also to gather the knowledge necessary for its restoration
as a fundamental architecture of the 20th century. The second is open to
some of the greatest protagonists of today's architecture and
is part of Le Corbusier's cultural strategy, which has always been
able to reconsider his works in the light of contemporary phenomena,
even through graphic manipulations, plane inversions and
reversals of photographs, in order to discover their potential
unexpected. Thanks to these two axes, history and architectural project enter into dialogue
in homage to the theoretical vision of Le Corbusier.
