Rue Mallet-Stevens
This complex was created by Paris-based architect, designer and production designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945), co-founder of UAM (Union of Modern Artists) in 1929. The street is composed of four housing blocks that create a private dead-end crossing; there are also ateliers at the ground floor (one used to be Mallet-Stevens' office and is now an art gallery open to the public). Mallet-Stevens' architecture explores all different variations of modernist architecture language; in this work he displays a huge catalogue of windows, volumes and formal compositions; the architect was also criticised for the use of such a complex language.
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