Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Le corbusier

  • In Upstate New York, residents are clamoring to raze down their Government Center, Paul Rudolph's classic 1970 example of brutalist design. Ostensibly, this is due to flood-damage.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • RONCHAMP, France — Completed in 1955, Le Corbusier's hilltop chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in this hardscrabble patch of eastern France attracts some 100,000 supplicants each year, architectural and religious.
  • (New York Times)
  • What follows is a discursive and poetic investigation of that minimal space .
  • (Times of India)
  • The fund put the Goshen building on its 2012 watch list. Opinions are even stronger when it comes to Brutalism, a style closely associated with the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and one that tends to produce weighty monoliths like the F.B.
  • (New York Times)
  • Books on the history of architecture are full of references to the likes of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus movement, he said, but seldom do they explore the experimentation in Russian architecture following the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Take the controversy over new additions to the small church of Notre Dame du Haut in rural Ronchamp, France, built in the 1950s by the modernist Le Corbusier.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • The BFI on Tuesday announced details of its biggest ever project: celebrating the genius of a man who, it said, was as important to modern cinema as Picasso to modern art or Le Corbusier to modern architecture.
  • (The Guardian)

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