Immeuble Clarté

Immeuble Clarté
Alternative names	Maison Clarté
General information
Type	Residential
Architectural style	Modernist
Address	Rue Saint-Laurent 2–4
Town or city	Geneva
Country	Switzerland
Construction started	1931
Completed	1932
Renovated	1975
Technical details
Floor count	9
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret
Renovating team
Architect(s)	Pascal Haüsermann, Bruno Camoletti
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Part of	The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
Criteria	Cultural: (i), (ii), (vi)
Reference	1321rev-007
Inscription	2016 (40th Session)
Area	0.15 ha (16,000 sq ft)
Buffer zone	1.8 ha (190,000 sq ft)

Immeuble Clarté is an apartment building in Geneva designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret starting from 1928 and built in 1931–32. It has eight stories comprising 45 free plan units of diverse configurations and sizes. It is one of Le Corbusier's key early projects in which he explored the principles of modernist architecture in apartment buildings, which later led to the Unité d'Habitation design principle.

After it escaped demolition in the 1960s, the building was first renovated in the 1970s. After being again threatened with demolition in the early 1980s, in 1986 it was listed as a historic monument. In July 2016, the building and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Further reading

• Sumi, Christian: "Immeuble Clarté Genf 1932 von Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret", Zürich: gta, ETH Zürich 1989, ISBN 3-250-50106-9

External links

• Media related to Immeuble Clarté at Wikimedia Commons