Become a paid member to listen to this article On the roof of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille After 60 years of existence, Le Corbusier‘s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille remains a ...
Curiosities is a column where I comment on the art news of the week, sometimes about stories that were too small or strange to make the cut, sometimes just giving my thoughts on the highs and lows.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is arguably most pronounced in the writings and art of the Danish ...
The town outside Paris is home to Villa Savoye, one of his most famous projects. View of the west and south facades of Villa Savoye, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and built between ...
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 ...
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen’s “Flooded Modernity” at the Vejle Fjord (all images courtesy Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen and used with permission) When, at Floating Art, I let Villa Savoye “run aground” in ...
`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 ...
PARIS — I tend to prefer my European gesamtkunstwerk interior spaces lush, flamboyantly mannerist, funny, obscurantist, or noisy. For the most part, I am attracted to ossuaria, Rococo and Neo-Rococo ...
To even the most casual observer, Le Corbusier has become a household name. His lifetime achievements in brutalist architecture, city planning, and pilotis represent his tireless search for modernism, ...
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