Also saw the Maison de Brasil by Corb and Louis Costa on this campus. Headed out through an amazingly pleasant park, lots of sunday strollers, down some quaint streets to find the Ozenfant studio (by Corb). Could only see the outside, still very pleasant. Could tell it was an earlier work. Backtracked to walk up a main boulevard, all the way from the farther 16th to almost the center of the city - briefly stopped into the Paris Pantheon (Parthenon?) and saw the Bibleotheque St. Geniveve from the outside. We were hurrying to catch this play our teacher had recommended, when we decided we wouldn't make it we headed instead to the National Gallery, intending to see the last day of the Gustav Klimt exhibition... that planned scrapped due to 3-hour lines, we headed to the Pompidou Center to see the Charlotte Perriand (worked with Corbusier doing much of his fabled furniture) exhibit.
The walk there was great - went through the Tuillerie (my new favorite french word to say) garden. stopped in the huge plaza Concorde with the egyptian obelisk - more impressive then I expected, the gold pyramid on the top was very effective. The lights all came on at once as we were admiring, fantastic moment. then through the louvre courtyard to the river, abandoned the normal sidewalk to walk right by the water on the lower level. Kind of got trapped on the outside of the road by the river, had to sprint across to get back up to the normal street level, but that walk was fantastic - dusk, lights, water, hmm way to fast traffic... :) the picture isn't the best but it was one of the best parts of the day.
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