The Architecture of Power

Le Corbusier once proposed flattening a large part of central Paris and replacing it with an ordered grid of towers. That plan, the Plan Voisin, hangs here in the last building he designed, alongside his Ville Contemporaine for three million people in glass towers.

You walk up the pavilion's ramps through about 600 square metres over four floors. The first part covers his city visions in photos, plans, autographs and publications; the second follows his hunt for big commissions from the Soviet government, Mussolini and Pétain. Curator Christian Brändle, the museum's director, set out to give a more nuanced picture after years of critics calling the architect a fascist. A review quoted by the museum credits the show with putting those ambitions together in context for the first time.

Tickets are CHF 15, CHF 10 reduced, free for under-20s and for everyone on Thursdays from 17:00. An audio guide covers the building in 18 stations. It closes for the winter after 29 November.