1924-1926 Almanach d’un Esprit nouveau at the Maison La Roche

From 21 January to 2 March 2026, the Fondation Le Corbusier presents, at the Maison La Roche, the exhibition 1924-1926 Almanach d’un Esprit Nouveau — Le pavillon de Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret à l’Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes à Paris.

This year 2025 marks the centenary of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, which celebrated the triumph of a modernity known as “Art Deco” since the 1960s in Paris. As in 1925, the purist pavilion of the magazine L’Esprit Nouveau, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret (1924-1925), appears little or as a singular, marginalised, even incongruous object, whereas it was the only one within this event to engage in a profound reflection on the organisation of contemporary society, a true political project according to the noble original meaning of the term.

As part of an architectural tour of the Maison La Roche, the exhibition 1924-1926 Almanach d’un Esprit Nouveau (1924-1926 Almanac of a New Spirit) bears witness, in several stages, to the intellectual and artistic ambition of this major milestone in modern architecture.

Through original drawings, photographs, publications, archives, furniture, objects and paintings, mainly from the Fondation Le Corbusier, the exhibition offers a rediscovery of this little-known key achievement in Le Corbusier’s work, its ambition, its importance in the history of the 20th-century avant-garde, its dissemination and its legacy.