Iconic Houses – Conference Countdown

Five questions for … Elena Ruiz Sastre
Elena Ruiz Sastre will tell us about Casa Broner, the house that the German architect and painter Erwin Broner designed for himself on Ibiza in 1960. The house was built over a cliff and was influenced by Le Corbusier. In 2005 the Broner house was bequeathed to Ibiza’s City Council.
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