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Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier was a prolific writer and an accomplished painter as well as an architect in the history of architecture who produced an imposing and influential body of work. During the decade of the 1920s he executed a series of designs for private villas that crystalized the International Style. When, in 1903, Lutyens declared “In [...]
Post-War Architecture
The past four decades have seen one of the largest building programmes in the history of architecture. The world has literally been reshaped. This extensive building programme began with the need to rebuild, renew and reinstate after the ravages of the Second World War. Housing took priority, and from an architectural point of view, it [...]
The Range of Modern Architecture
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 [...]
Modernism
In 1915 Le Corbusier proposed a scheme for the rapid erection of housing. Conceived initially as a solution to the problem of replacing housing stock damaged in the war then raging in Europe, the Domino House is a seminal example of modernism in the history of architecture. The skeleton of the house was reduced to [...]
Ronchamp – Le Corbusier’s Chapel and the Crisis of Rationalism
With the simultaneous appearance of Lever House in New York and the Unite in Marseilles, it had become obvious that the stylistic schism between Europe and the New World had entered a decisive phase. The issue of art or technology had divided the ideological basis of the modern movement, and the diverging styles apparent since [...]
