Opened in 1955, the Catholic chapel offered a new direction in Modernist design.
Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland's Jura region in 1887, named Charles-Édouard Jeanneret – and died during his daily swim (having suffered a heart attack) in his beloved seaside spot in the Cote ...
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 ...
Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea recounts the birth of the iconic villa on the Côte d’Azur and the conflict with Le Corbusier, who painted murals on its walls. A visual narrative that intertwines ...
Le Corbusier had never designed a religious building when he agreed to rebuild the chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. His raw concrete masterpiece, crowned with a roof inspired by a crab shell, ...
What do an Ikea showroom floor, urban housing projects and Kanye West have in common? They've all been inspired, at least to some degree, by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier. Though his ...
NEW YORK — It’s easy to imagine that “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes,” a vast, dense and beautifully installed new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, began as a kind of parlor game.
Urban Plan for Algiers, project Plan and perspective. 1935. / Le Corbusier; The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS) MoMA's ...
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