Pavillon Le Corbusier (Heidi Weber Museum)Seefeld

The Architecture of Power

Dernière chance17 avril 2026 – 29 novembre 202615 CHF

How monumental buildings give political power a stage, examined through Le Corbusier's designs and his willingness to engage with fascism.

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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.

Coup de cœur de la rédaction

Le Corbusier's last building hosts a show about his willingness to engage with fascism, and about how monumental architecture gives political power a stage. An uncomfortable subject, examined from inside one of his own designs.

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The Plan Voisin
Look for Le Corbusier's scheme to clear a large part of central Paris and lay an ordered, functional grid over it.
The Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux
On the first floor, his 1937 pavilion is presented as a visual manifesto for the city he wanted to build.
The cities that inspired him
On the second floor, Sant'Elia's Città Nuova, Boullée's neoclassical designs of around 1785 and Hugh Ferriss's dramatically lit stepped towers.
Chandigarh
The Indian city begun in 1951, where his plans were finally built, with the Capitol's assembly building.

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Avec des enfants

Children aged 9 and up can follow the Ma Promenade route sheet through the pavilion, and a hands-on table lets all ages design new colour schemes or make photo collages. Under-20s go free.