Summer in the Mediterranean Sea was a part of the idea of the modern in art and architecture, and became an expression of modern life. In 1952 the architect Le Corbusier designed a wooden hut on a beach of the Côte d'Azur, beside a simple fish restaurant, and behind the famous E1027, home of Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici. The Cabanon, a room 3.66x 3.66 meters with dining in the tavern, faithfully applied the anthropometric scale of the Modulor and consisted an ideal base for holidays. In this place famous moderns have met. Among them, photographer Lucien Hervé, who enjoyed the summer of his personal friendship and casually captures a place and time. Hervé's photographs, the drawings and sketches of Le Corbusier, the correspondence and the Cabanon itself, partly reconstructed, create a perception of life and architecture that identify the ideal and the simple.

The reconstruction of the Cabanon was part of a teaching program at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, and is implemented with the kind sponsorship of the National Association of Timber, the Mourikis S.A. Company, the Alpha Timber Company and the Workshop-S Dionisis Sotovikis.

The exhibition is part of the events “Reference to Ελ/Le Corbusier."