French Pavilion — “Modernity, Promise or Menace?”
Curated by Jean-Louis Cohen (the mastermind of last summer’s blockbuster Corbusier retrospective at MoMA), the French pavilion takes a long glance at the country’s history of cast concrete residential architecture. Though the material and typology are more often associated with drab pre-fabricated blocks behind the Iron Curtain, the French pavilion offers a reminder that it was Corbusier and his ilk who popularized the material in geometric iterations around the globe.