Houses Jaoul

Le Corbusier – Maisons Jaoul, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France 1951-1954

Houses Jaoul is a famous pair of houses in the upscale Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier and built in 1954–1956. They are among his most important postwar buildings and feature a rugged aesthetic of unpainted “béton brut” concrete and roughly detailed brick.
The buildings were designed in 1937 but were only built after the war for André Jaoul and his son Michel. For a time they were owned by the English millionaire Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo. They now belong to two sisters who live there with their families. The Maison Jaoul have been protected by the French government as historical monuments since 1966, at the request of André Malraux.

His son Michel (or Jacques Michel) Jaoul worked as an architect in Le Corbusier's office and was responsible for the renovation of the houses in 1988. The construction of these vaulted houses signals a new trend in Le Corbusier's architecture, and the Maisons Jaoul can be considered his first work.New Brutalist".