Cité Musée Tony Garnier
Open-air gallery of twenty-four monumental murals wrapped around a 1920s housing estate.
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This guide to the Cité Musée Tony Garnier in Lyon opens in 1934, with the architect himself watching officials override his low-rise housing design and force extra floors onto every block. It traces the decades of neglect that followed him afterward, from demolished buildings to a villa the council later sold off, and the group of residents who answered it in 1988 by painting his rejected visions across the estate's walls. Historians now count him among the most demolished architects in France.
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