Singapore Archifest 2025 marks SG60 with bold programmes in a celebration of design. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

As is often the case with talented women, Gray’s personal life captivated the public: she was bisexual, had a long romantic ...

From films on architects like BV Doshi and Eileen Grey to documentaries on biomimicry and green architecture, the four-day ...

Le Corbusier never attended any architecture college. He attended a course in decorative arts when he was 18 and developed his interest in architecture and learnt mostly by sketching and painting. 5.

Le Corbusier's fur-covered copy of Don Quixote. Source: Le Corbusier, Architect of Books via Google Books. 38. Le Corbusier and his wife had a dog--a black-haired schnauzer named Pinceau (Paintbrush).

Nor do I think he exaggerates the impact Corbusier has had and continues to have on succeeding generations. In fact, if you need a book to give to a young architect or simply to someone who wants to ...

In writing the narrative biography “Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow” (New Harvest, 2014), I had the enviable task of going to see where my subject had grown up in ...

They also point to his awareness of audience: Le Corbusier understood, as so many younger architects do now, the publicity value of the provocative image, the aggressive quote.

Situated in Poissy, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye is one of the most significant contributions to modern architecture in the 20th century.

Le Corbusier never got to destroy Stockholm, but architects inspired by his doctrines have gone a fair way toward doing so. As the blurb to the 1964 edition of The Radiant City prophetically puts it, ...