Paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey has recreated ten modernist buildings from folded and cut paper for his book Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold.
The book, which is released next month, contains step-by-step instructions and material to recreate 10 of Le Corbusier's most recognisable buildings in kirigami ? a variation of origami that includes cutting of the paper.

"Le Corbusier's work is perfect for recreating in kirigami," Hagan-Guirey told Dezeen.
"His buildings are monolithic and punctured with an assortment of seemingly random windows shapes. These distinctive silhouettes can be perfectly rendered in the simple shapes of kirigami," he continued.
"That's the aim with paper architecture ? to make a simple arrangement of cuts and folds into instantly recognisable historic buildings. It also helps that curved surfaces are a rarity in Le Corb's work as they don't translate so well to paper."
The book is Hagan-Guirey's second that focuses on architecture, following Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models which contains 14 kirigami designs to recreate the American architect's buildings.
This time he focused on the work of one of the pioneers of modern architecture, Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, who Hagan-Guirey first came across while studying art in Manchester.

"I can remember coming across his work when I was writing an essay on futurism and architecture, and I discovered that aspects of Manchester's refo...