Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre: A Modernist Myth

Commissioned in 1927, Pierre Chareau designed a private house with a medical office at 31 Rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris, resulting in the Maison de Verre. This building is described as experimental, radical, atypical, extreme, and premonitory, now considered both an archetype of modernity and a mythical object. Four architects from different generations—Antoine Grumbach, Odile Decq, Benoit Cornette, and Paul Nelson—offer perspectives on the depth and multiple implications of this laboratory and magic lantern.