Philips Pavilion
Paths outward
- Location
- Laeken, Belgium
- Year
- 1958
- Typology
- Retail & Hospitality
- Materials
- Concrete, Steel
- Context
- Modernism, International Style
- Map
- Open location
The Philips Pavilion was a modernist pavilion in Brussels, Belgium, constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Commissioned by electronics manufacturer Philips and designed by the office of Le Corbusier, it was built to house a multimedia spectacle that celebrated postwar technological progress. Because Le Corbusier was busy with the planning of Chandigarh, much of the project management was assigned to Iannis Xenakis, who was also an experimental composer and was influenced in the design by his composition Metastaseis.
