A suitcase found in a closet in Le Corbusier’s Paris apartment at 24 rue Nungesser-et-Coli after his death contained seventy-three sketchbooks neatly ordered. They include a mélange of sketches and ...

What moves us humans, physically and emotionally? This is the theme explored by the protagonist of modern architecture Le Corbusier (1887-1965) as well as by the great Danish artist Asger Jorn ...

`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 ...

THE Visual Arts Center, financed by a $1.5 million gift to the Program for Harvard College by Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05 and the late Mrs. Carpenter, of Medford, Ore., is the first Le Corbusier ...

No single person—no elected official, designer, planner, architect or style-setter—has had a more profound effect on the built environment worldwide than the Swiss-French architect and city planner Le ...

The great Modernist designer Le Corbusier’s only architectural project in Africa was a seaside home for industrialist Lucien Baizeau who was based in Tunis. Built between 1928-1930, Villa Baizeau is ...

PARIS — Spoiler alert: The deplorable revelations recounted here will not ruin your appreciation of the sublime beauty of Le Corbusier’s masterpieces. The backstory: New French books on architect Le ...

Le Corbusier — the Swiss-French master of modernist architecture — was a fascist sympathizer who had an office in Vichy during the Second World War and displayed anti-Semitism in his private ...

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 ...

1887: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known to the world as Le Corbusier, is born in the Swiss city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. He will change his name and take French citizenship in his 30s. More ...

More than 70 years after Le Corbusier built La Cité Radieuse, his utopian vertical village in Marseille, the modernist master’s brutalist landmark still stands proud. We meet the residents enjoying a ...