# Le Corbusier publishes the Plan Voisin: eighteen towers on a razed right-bank Paris, sponsored as a completed urban plan

Date: 1925

## The fact

In 1925, at the Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau and in related publications, [Le Corbusier](/people/le-corbusier) presented the Plan Voisin: a grid of cruciform towers on a cleared right bank of Paris, with highways in the voids. He did not receive a demolition warrant. Displacement is the path because the plan’s content is erasure of a living centre. Automobile patronage (Voisin) is in the name. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Context

Later Ville Radieuse is a neighbouring theory-row, not a twin of this titled plan. Residents of the Marais and the right bank were the would-be displaced. Pierre Jeanneret shared the office; the signature is Le Corbusier’s public brand. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Fondation Le Corbusier’s portal independently hosts the architectural oeuvre including the 1920s urban plans. Britannica independently treats Plan Voisin and high-rise urbanism as his. MoMA’s artist page independently frames the modern-movement urban schemes. No unique 1925 eviction roll exists because the plan was not executed. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal (https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/; Fondation Le Corbusier).

## Significance

A famous unbuilt clearance is still a displacement path as a completed idea that later housing ministries copied in spirit. High confidence on 1925 as publication; later banlieue towers are mixed reception, not this drawing. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Unbuilt is not a reason to drop a published plan; UNESCO listing of other works is not this act. Mixed effects of Le Corbusier publishes the Plan Voisin: eighteen towers on a razed right-bank Paris, sponsored as a completed urban plan are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1925 Plan Voisin as his published Paris scheme. Not established: a unique count of flats that would have been lost, or that the City adopted it. Not a 2016 World Heritage file as the act. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Shared responsibility is part of Le Corbusier publishes the Plan Voisin: eighteen towers on a razed right-bank Paris, sponsored as a completed urban plan. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1925-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/forced-displacement-scale). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Le Corbusier: https://factrail.ai/people/le-corbusier

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier
- https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-plan-voisin-1925