Rogelio Salmona: an apprentice at the Rue de Sèvres

Le Corbusier was Rogelio Salmona’s first and direct mentor when he contributed to one of the most fertile and productive stages of the workshop’s history: during the time of the unité d’habitatión in Marseilles, the Ronchamps, the Chandigarh, and the Ahmedabad. Salmona dealt with topics ranging from housing to monumental architecture, including urban scale problems. With Le Corbusier he learned to rethink the city and the social implications of town planning, the responsibility for its development, and the important role of architecture in the shaping of public space. He also learned to disagree with modern theories and hypothesis and thus produced a work that aimed to seek the very essence of architecture.