Richard Neutraโs VDL Research House is surely the building whose history best captures the life of its architect.
Named โVDLโ after the wealthy Dutch industrialist Cees H. Van der Leeuw, Neutraโs early benefactor, it served as the architectโs own home and studio for much of his career.
The Villa Savoye was built by the cousins Pierre and Charles Edouard Jeanneret, the latter much better known by his pseudonym Le Corbusier. Situated in Poissy in north central France, and just outside Paris, Pierre Savoye commissioned the cousins to build the home in 1928.
Le Corbusierโs โLa Citรฉ Radieuseโ or Radiant City is an undisputed masterpiece of modernist design. Designed way back in 1929, and built between 1947 and 1952, the block featured one of the first instances of the architectโs path-breaking Unitรฉ dโHabitation (housing unit), a modernist residential design principle he developed in collaboration with painter-architect Nadir Afonso.
