Maisons Jaoul

André Jaoul, the client for this project, had been in contact with Le Corbusier since 1937 for the construction of a weekend house, which was never actually built.

In 1951 he recontacted  Le Corbusier for a new  two-family project. This was planned on a plot in Rue de Longchamp at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Le Corbusier quickly abandoned the idea of a single house and proposed building two adjoining separate houses, referred to as ‘house A’ for the parents and ‘house B’ for the children.

The houses were occupied by the Jaoul families until 1987, then sold by Sotheby’s to a collector, who was also a modern architecture enthusiast. In 2000 they were again sold, to two sisters and their families.

The houses had been carefully preserved in their original state by the Jaoul family. The first restoration works took place in 1991 and involved the exterior concrete, waterproofing the terraces, the exterior joinery and modernizing the plumbing and electricity.The work was supervised by two men who had worked on the original project, Jacques Michel and Salvatore Bertocchi, the former as Le Corbusier’s associate and the latter as masonry contractor.

The facades and roofs, listed as historical monuments, have been subjected to recent restoration involving the brick and raw concrete facades, the exterior joinery and  waterproofing of the terraces (2018-2019).