When superstars appeal to "stararchitects"

What could be more legitimate than the Villa Noailles - a building-manifesto of French modernism designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens in the early 1920s - to host an exhibition on the homes of celebrities. The title, "Houses for Superstar", is striking, because it takes up that of the competition launched in 1975 in the Japan Architects magazine by the Japanese Arata Isozaki, gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1986, Pritzker Prize in 2019, author of the Concert Hall in Kyoto, the Berliner Volksbank in Berlin or the tomb of the composer Luigi Nono on the island of San Michele in Venice. To this extraordinary competition, more than 300 international architects responded with projects as delusional as the capsule by Gian Piero Frassinelli to protect David by Michelangelo or the mausoleums of Hans Hollein for Jesus Christ, Cleopatra, Lenin. Without forgetting his replica of the Taj Mahal for Aristotle Onassis. Others launched into crazy proposals for Raquel Welsh, Brigitte

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