Tag: Le Corbusier
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Robert Fitzmaurice – interview: ‘I started to truncate the figure a lot more, take liberties with it, and add extra limbs’
The artist talks about the work in his latest show, now postponed, his interests and influences – and how he is coping with lockdown
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Mathieu Pernot – The Crossing
Jeu de Paume, Paris 11 February – 18 May 2014
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Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow: Learning to Live With Uncertainty
Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow: Learning to Live With Uncertainty by Robert Maxwell. Published by Artifice Books on Architecture, 2013.
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Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014
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Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis
Philadelphia Museum of Art 14 October 2013 – 5 January 2014
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Le Corbusier: An Atlas Of Modern Landscapes
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, edited by Jean-Louis Cohen. (Accompanying the exhibition of the same name at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 15 June – 23 September 2013). Published by Thames & Hudson, London and New…
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In the Kingdom of the Gods and Goddesses
Then, in 1975, an even more remarkable underground city was discovered in Chandigarh. For 18 years, humble, self-taught Hindu artist, Nek Chand, had been secretly constructing an extraordinary folk art environment. Although Chand called it the Kingdom (nagri) of the…
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Ronchamp at sixty: Le Corbusier’s timeless legacy
The Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier at Ronchamp was built between 1950 and 1956. A small, white building that lies conspicuous and easily visible on its knoll for many miles around, it signifies even from afar…
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Book review: Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier
Subtitled Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity, this book is an important new addition to the discourse, and theory of architecture, art, and visual studies, as the publisher rightly avers, and not merely architecture. The author pursues the issue…
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Robin Hood, Robin Hood
One of the important architectural icons of the 1970s is, by popular consent, now due to be demolished in London’s Tower Hamlets. Conceived as providing housing for lower income groups, it was launched by the architectural husband and wife partnership…
