Abstract
In 1918, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret confided to one of his mentors, the writer William Ritter : " the laboratory that is Paris, is at all hours the temptation, the attempt to try out the mechanism of mysterious tools. I love it. " After settling in the French capital in 1917, he never ceased to undertake the most daring experiments.
After failing to realize his dreams as a small businessman, he joined forces with painter Amédée Ozenfant to develop a new pictorial doctrine - purisme - and found the magazine L'Esprit nouveau, which, thanks to its provocative articles, brought him worldwide fame.
At the same time, Paris became the backdrop for ambitious urban planning projects, such as the " Plan Voisin ", which in 1925 envisaged the creation of a business district with glass towers in the center of the right bank. In addition to the major plans that followed one another over the next fifteen years, Le Corbusier continued to punctuate the capital with more modest projects, often conceived as observatories on an urban landscape that he reduced to a handful of grand monuments.
