Paris's 5 Brutalist buildings are concentrated in the peripheral arrondissements, where post-war housing programmes tested vertical living at extraordinary scale. Martin Schulz van Treeck's Orgues de Flandre — organ-pipe towers rising above the 19th arrondissement — is the collection's most visually dramatic entry: a cluster of concrete towers whose stepped profiles give each apartment a different height and view.
The Résidence Vision 80 by Jean-Pierre Jouve, André Frischlander and Charles Mamfredos packs hundreds of units into a dense concrete complex in the 13th arrondissement. Michael Holley's Olympiades — a megastructural platform raised above street level — reimagined the entire block as an elevated city. Pierre Parat and Michel Andrault's Tour Totem stacks residential units as a sculptural tower near the Périphérique. Breuer, Nervi and Zehrfuss' UNESCO headquarters brings institutional Brutalism to an international stage, with its Y-shaped plan and pilotis garden.
