Immeuble Clarté Explained

Immeuble Clarté
Alternate Names:	Maison Clarté
Address:	Rue Saint-Laurent 2–4
Location Town:	Geneva
Location Country:	Switzerland
Start Date:	1931
Completion Date:	1932
Architect:	Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret
Floor Count:	9
Building Type:	Residential
Architectural Style:	Modernist
Renovation Date:	1975
Ren Architect:	Pascal Haüsermann, Bruno Camoletti
Footnotes:	Child: yes Part Of: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement Criteria: (i), (ii), (vi) Id: 1321rev-007 Year: 2016 Area: 0.15ha Buffer Zone: 1.8ha

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] In July 2016, the building and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.^[4]

Further reading

• Sumi, Christian: "Immeuble Clarté Genf 1932 von Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret", Zürich: gta, ETH Zürich 1989,

Notes and References

1. Fondation Le Corbusier: "Immeuble Clarté, Geneva, Switzerland, 1930", retrieved 12 October 2012
2. Sherwood, Roger: "Modern Housing Prototypes", Harvard University Press, 1978
3. City of Geneva: "Restauration de l'immeuble Clarté de Le Corbusier", 24 August 2007
4. Web site: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier. UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 19 July 2016. en.