Modernist Residential Courtyard, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

Layered concrete facades push back through a screen of autumn foliage in this Paris residential courtyard. The staggered volumes — flat roofs, rust-panel balconies, deep-set windows — build a quiet geometric logic that the greenery half-obscures and half-softens. Overcast light holds everything to the same flat, even tone, which is the point: the architecture is doing its work even when the eye has to find it.