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Le Corbusier has left an invaluable legacy with his life’s work, throwing out convention and ushering in a new era of modern ...
Le Corbusier: A Life By Nicholas Fox Weber Knopf, 821 pages, $45 Le Corbusier Le Grand By the editors of Phaidon Press Phaidon Press, 624 pages, $200 The architect Le Corbusier astonished the world… ...
The Maison La Roche in Paris is one of architect Le Corbusier's star buildings. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is a perfect illustration of his innovative architectural principles. And ...
Le Corbusier never got to destroy Stockholm, but architects inspired by his doctrines have gone a fair way toward doing so. As the blurb to the 1964 edition of The Radiant City prophetically puts it, ...
On Le Corbusier's approach to urban architecture. Well he was looking at the city at the turn of the 20th century as a place that had grown quite tattered and worn and unsanitary. ...
Pratt Institute School of Architecture will host the symposium “Voyage through Le Corbusier” on Monday, October 11 from 6 to 9 p.m. in Higgins Hall Auditorium at 61 St. James Place in Brooklyn in ...
Writing mattered to the Swiss architect Le Corbusier.When he became a naturalized French citizen in 1930, Le Corbusier called himself neither a painter nor an architect, but an homme de lettres (a ...
The National Museum of Western Art (NMWA), Tokyo's special exhibition "Le Corbusier and the Age of Purism" provides a tangential look at the career of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (1887-1965), who ...
"He's blamed for urban renewal ... urban freeways, even countless suburban office parks," says Anthony Flint, author of the new Le Corbusier biography Modern Man.