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The dishevelled space is perhaps not what might be expected of Le Corbusier, as he called himself — a pioneer of modern architecture, with its pristine geometric forms and egalitarian functionalism.
Le Corbusier wrote, if not 'the', then 'a' rulebook for modernism – quite literally, as his groundbreaking 1923 book Towards a New Architecture famously outlined his 'five points of architecture', ...
In 1923, Le Corbusier was only 36 years old, but he already had a number of buildings to his name, including the Atelier Ozenfant.Although he was particularly interested in workers' housing, his ...
More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first ...
The architect Le Corbusier once stated, "If you create a house with stone, wood, and concrete, that's just a building; if you touch my heart, that's architecture." ...
With this brief sentence, Swiss-born French architect and designer Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (or "Le Corbusier") summarised the crux of his functionalist vision in the so-called "manifesto" of ...
Encountering Le Corbusier: A dialogue with modern architecture’s divisive figure - Sat, October 29, 2022 - The Jakarta Post.
Massimo De Carlo and Fondation Le Corbusier continue their art–architecture conversation with a vibrant new show by Nicole ...