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Watch Le Petit Architecte

Le Petit Architecte created by Theo Triantafyllidis, a student at UCLA, is an open-ended architectural competition. Participants are invited to take the role of a young intern, destined to create the absolute architectural masterpiece. Starting from the location of the infamous villa, they are given an arsenal of building materials to unravel their talent and improve upon Édouard's design. The tallest and most aesthetically pleasing icon wins.

If you're obsessed with modernism, you can play with Le Corbusier's Villa Savoy however you want-you can completely erase, improve or change the design with endless building materials and objects because a player has various objects that have very different purposes, effects, sizes and sounds and no relevance with the existing building at all. So, force yourself, use your imagination, be again modernist, architect, user whoever you wish and improve or change the building.  

Le Petit Architecte was commissioned by #decorbuziers exhibition in Romantso, Athens, Greece, a big alternative pop, neo-goth -memorial- on the occasion of the 50 years since the death of Le Corbusier. The exhibition was organised under the auspice of the School of Architecture of Athens, NTUA, Fondation Le Corbusier, Hellenic Institute of Architecture, greek division of Docomomo, Institut français d'Athènes, Embassy of Switzerland in Greece, Center Of Mediterranean Architecture and Association Internationale des Amis de la Fondation Le Corbusier.

As Allison Meier reviewed in Hyperallergic, she said that ''Le Petit Architecte is a fairly simple game — create chaos in the face of modernist serenity. Yet it’s an enjoyably absurd diversion, and provides some digital retribution perhaps for those of us who still cringe over Le Corbusier’s mural defacement of Eileen Gray’s E.1027.''

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