Architecture d'aujourd'hui

Architecture d'aujourd'hui, the new journal launched in Paris in 1930, presents itself as an active agent of modernisation, commissioning three documentaries from the director Pierre Chenal. In this case, too, as Alessandra Redivo explains in the accompanying file, cinema speaks directly to the public, showing them not only the forms of the new rational architecture and the possibilities of reinforced concrete, but also the possibilities offered by the new architecture in everyday life. Highlighted are architectural constructions like the rue Mallet-Stevens or Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in Possy.