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Leaving Chandigarh (Travelblog)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:07:38 GMT

The last few days in Chandigarh have been great. Its a wonderful city thats left a fantastic impression on me of Punjabi people. A few days ago I went and had a look at Le Corbusier's Secretariat building the High Council Building and the Assembly Hall. Each building was unique striking and extremely well designed. It was quite an ordeal to get all of the permissions organized. I needed o

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Could you be, the most beautiful church in the world (Bluematter.)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Informally known as Ronchamp, the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp (French: Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp), France completed in 1954 is considered one of the finest examples of architecture by the late French/Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier at first refused the commission, not wanting, he said, to be associated with a 'dead institution'. What a poorer place...

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Dreaming with Mr. Koolhaas (Slow Painting)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:22:15 GMT

Plan of Dreamland, watercolor by Rem Koolhaas In the evolution of the 20th-century city, New York played a crucial role. Gotham haunted the imagination of everyone from John Dos Passos and H.G. Wells to Le Corbusier and the German Expressionist director Fritz Lang. A man-made colossus, it embodied in its concrete grid and in the tidal [...]

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Le Corbusier: Modernist master (3quarksdaily)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:23:09 GMT

Jonathan Meades in the New Statesman: Le Corbusier Le Grand is doubly well named. First, the book is the size of two breeze blocks and notably heavier. It is, according to Jean-Louis Cohen, not a coffee-table book but the coffee...

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A homage to a giant and a reproach to the midgets who decry him (3quarksdaily)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:21:23 GMT

Le Corbusier Le Grand is doubly well named. First, the book is the size of two breeze blocks and notably heavier. It is, according to Jean-Louis Cohen, not a coffee-table book but the coffee table itself: all you need do...

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What You Don’t Know About The Modernism (Articles Database)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:57:34 GMT

At the same period in the late 1920s, three houses were designed which encapsulated the differing strands within the new view of architecture, by then often called “Modernism”: the Dymaxion House by Richard Buckminster Fuller in the USA; “Les Terraces” outside Paris by Le Corbusier for the Stein and de Monzie families; and Haus Moller [...]

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Books: 'Le Corbusier Le Grand' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:00:00 GMT

This formidable picture book traces the career of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the prophet of modern architecture and city planning known as Le Corbusier.

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Modernist master (New Statesman)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:44:01 GMT

Despite the carping of anti-modernist reactionaries, Le Corbusier remains the greatest architect of the 20th century and a colossal study just published does justice to his protean creativity Le Corbusier Le Grand is doubly well named. First, the book is the size of two breeze blocks and notably heavier. It is, according to Jean-Louis Cohen, not a coffee-table book but the coffee table...

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Le Corbusier "Le Grand" ~ A Spectacular Visual Biography of his Life and Work (Art Knowledge News)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:33:08 GMT

NEW YORK CITY - Using the same grandly oversized format as Warhol "Giant Size" (Phaidon, 2006), Le Corbusier Le Grand includes approximately 2,000 images and documents, many previously unpublished, featuring his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture as well as sketches and archival photographs. Rarely seen photographs and personal correspondences also shed new...

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A Virtual Recreation of a Long Gone Sound & Light Show [Retro Futurism] (io9)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT

newVideoPlayer("/sound_light_1.flv", 506, 423,""); The Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair was designed by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis as a "container" for a sound and light show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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The weight of history (Material Interest)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:08:48 GMT

Le Corbusier's influence has, of course, been well-documented: The master architectand, as seen here, snappy dresserinspired generations of designers, urban planners, and artists with his work. Phaidon's Le Corbusier: Le Grand offers a fittingly monumental tribute to the man, including...

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machines for living (3quarksdaily)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:55:43 GMT

Like many utopian visions that someone is crazy enough to attempt to realize, modernist architecture has always contained an element of fascism. It wasn’t just that a cuckoo notion like Le Corbusier’s “radiant city,” those celery stalks of lone skyscrapers...

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Five best autumn events (3 in Liverpool) (Liverpool Art and Culture)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:23:21 GMT

From today's Independent on Sunday... Five best autumn events From marauding machines to alfresco art, Tom Henry picks the best of the North-west 1. Le Corbusier, Liverpool Also known as The Art of Architecture, this show will be the UK's...

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Le Corbusier by Jean-Louis Cohen and Tim Benton (Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:19:00 GMT

LE CORBUSIER: Le Grand. Introductory essay by Jean-Louis Cohen. Chapter introductions by Tim Benton. Phaidon, 768 pp. $200. There are coffee-table books, and ...

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Le Corbusier picture book is weighty tome in more ways than one (Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:32:00 GMT

"Le Corbusier Le Grand" is a formidable picture book that traces the monumental career of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the prophet of modern architecture and city ...

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Le Corbusier's Cabanon (Shedworking)

noreply@blogger.com (Alex) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:11:00 GMT

Shedworking's Garden Shows correspondent Emma Townshend recently visited Le Corbusier's marvellous shedworking structure in France and sent us back some photos. "You walk down a little footpath with cactuses by the sea to get to it," she writes. "There's also a gorgeous little bar there - next door, owned by a friend who was a plumber = so they didn't have to cook. They show you lovely pictures...

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Heidi Weber 50 Years Ambassador for Le Corbusier (Dexigner Design Portal)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:00:01 GMT

The Heidi Weber Museum - Centre Le Corbusier in Zurich is presenting an important retrospective to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Heidi Webers first encounter with Le Corbusier The exhibition is consecrated to the entire body of works of Le C

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Word of the Day: Brutalism (Architecture) (Les Jones)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:49:38 GMT

Wikipedia : Brutalism is an architectural style that spawned from the modernist architectural movement and which flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. The early style was inspired largely by the work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and in particular his Unité d'Habitation (1952) and the 1953 Secretariat Building in Chandigarh, India. The term Brutalist Architecture originates from the...

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Good Questions: How Do I Identify and Refinish a Le Corbusier LC2? (Apartment Therapy - San Francisco)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:48:43 GMT

Hi there. I have a Le Corbusier LC2 that I would like some info on and to partially refinish myself. I can tell from the condition that it is easily over 25 years old and there are no markings/stick

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Two different architects with much in common (San Fransisco Chronicle)

jking@sfchronicle.com () — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:09:32 GMT

When Timothy Pflueger visited New York in 1931, he scribbled a note to himself: "Get Le Corbusier's 'Towards a New Architecture.' " If you're familiar with the two architects, I'll warrant you just did a double take. Pflueger was a clubby San Franciscan...

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