Corbusier Pavilion – Zurich
With the series dedicated to the Le Corbusier Pavilion in Zurich, Stéphane Couturier continues his sustained engagement with modern architecture. Opened in 1967 and the last building realised by Le Corbusier, the pavilion appears in his photographs not as an architectural icon, but as a structural system composed of grid, steel, glass and colour.
As in his earlier work, Couturier combines multiple views of the same site into a newly constructed pictorial reality. Through digital layering, fragmentation and condensation, he transforms the pavilion into complex pictorial spaces where transparency and reflection, interior and exterior, construction and colour intersect.
In several works, the architectural structure is overlaid not only with further views of the building itself, but also with photographic fragments of Le Corbusier’s tapestries that were previously exhibited in the pavilion. These textile motifs enter into dialogue with the steel and glass architecture, extending the interplay between structure, colour and surface.
Architecture is not documented but analysed and recomposed. The pavilion becomes the point of departure for an autonomous photographic structure that oscillates between rational construction and painterly abstraction.
