No single person—no elected official, designer, planner, architect or style-setter—has had a more profound effect on the built environment worldwide than the Swiss-French architect and city planner Le ...
When we think of Le Corbusier, we tend to think of him in black and white. The monolithic Radiant City, the clean lines of Villa Savoye, even the photographs of Corb himself, lecturing students ...
Chandigarh, one of India’s capital cities, was conceived as a modernist utopia. When Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, commissioned Le Corbusier to design the city’s master plan in 1950, ...
THE Visual Arts Center, financed by a $1.5 million gift to the Program for Harvard College by Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05 and the late Mrs. Carpenter, of Medford, Ore., is the first Le Corbusier ...
`The time of history ... a sea occupied by innumerable forms of a finite number of types.` George Kubler, The Shape of Time There is no single key to the enigmatic world of Le Corbusier. As well as ...
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) with Pierre Jeanneret. Villa Savoye Poissy-sur-Seine, France. 1929–31. Wood, aluminum, and plastic, 16 x 34 x 32" (40.6 x ...
1: Jeanneret's school for Le Corbusier 1887-1916: Early influences -- Paris the whip -- German functionalism -- The useful voyage -- The new art movement -- 2: The hero of the Heroic Period 1917-28: ...
On 19 September 2016 at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Architectural and Heritage Centre), Paris, the representatives of seven States Parties, Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, ...
Online international competition organizer archasm has launched its “Chandigarh Unbuilt: Completing the Capitol” ideas competition, which seeks designs to finalize and complement Le Corbusier’s ...
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