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More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first ...
NEW YORK — Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, the architect who renamed himself Le Corbusier, was blessed when it came to his formation as a thinker, designer and theorist of the modern world.
Chosen from the work of Le Corbusier, the 17 sites comprising this transnational serial property are spread over seven countries and are a testimonial to the invention of a new architectural language ...
Twenty-eight years before Krisel designed tract houses for the Alexander Construction Company in Palm Springs, Swiss-French architect and Modernist pioneer Le Corbusier first came up with the ...
Le Corbusier was not only one of 20th-century architecture's leading figures but also a defining father of modernism, as well as a polarising figure; here, we explore the life and work of an architect ...
Just a couple dozen grainy photographs and a few sketchy plans are all that remain of Le Corbusier’s revolutionary Pavilion of the New Spirit, a model apartment the early Modernist architect ...
Photographer Roberto Conte uncovers the hidden gems of Chandigarh’s concrete infrastructure in his new series exploring the Le Corbusier-designed Indian city. The images capture the modernist ...
“This encounter—which, when mentioned at all, exists only as a footnote in each of their respective biographies—became the lens for us to see the whole of Le Corbusier’s architecture ...
The Maison La Roche in Paris is one of architect Le Corbusier's star buildings. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is a perfect illustration of his innovative architectural principles.
The auction brought in a hammer total of $44.2m, just below Phillips’s low estimate for the night and exactly in line with last November’s equivalent sale. At Phillips New York on Tuesday night, a far ...