Corbusier: Maison du Brésil, Fondation Suisse

There's an international school in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, where Corbusier has two buildings. The campus itself was split into two parts, one park-like area filled with sports fields, courts, and green lawn; and the other filled with buildins of many styles, reflecting the international population of the school. The strangest was a Mediterranean style building with a Chinese tile roof tacked on, as if that's all it takes to make a building Chinese. 

Corb's buildings are for the Brazil and Swiss dorms at the Eastern end of the campus. Lucio Costa and Corbusier collaborated on the Maison du Brésil, with Corbusier gradually taking over. I had not done any research beforehand, but the building was immediately recognizable. The composition is playful, with colors highlighting certain openings of the building; there is a skillful use of poured in place concrete with window openings placed in ways which break up the mass and talk about the scale of inhabitation; the form of the building is diverse with details in concrete (tables, ledges, benches) incorporated into the design; and the whole composition sits lightly on the ground. 

The ceiling in the lobby slopes down towards the entrance. Not being very tall, this was one of the few spaces I've been in where I've been made conscious of the space above my head. It created a nice feeling of expansion when walking into the building.

Fondation Suisse (below) is more reserved from the exterior, but Corbusier's play with curved walls, massing lifted from the ground, light, and concrete construction are still evident. It's worth going to the building's website to look at the play of colors that become evident at night: http://www.fondationsuisse.fr/