“I am quite simple, even transparent. It’s the events swirling around me that are twisted.” When he wrote these words late in life to a friend, the world-renowned architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, ...

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To even the most casual observer, Le Corbusier has become a household name. His lifetime achievements in brutalist architecture, city planning, and pilotis represent his tireless search for modernism, ...

Le Corbusier’s exhibition at the Pompidou Centre is the most popular architecture show at the museum, ever. “Mesures de l’homme” clocked in more than 260,000 visitors in its three months up at the ...

"He's blamed for urban renewal ... urban freeways, even countless suburban office parks," says Anthony Flint, author of the new Le Corbusier... Like It Or Not, Architect Le Corbusier's Urban Designs ...

TUNIS, Tunisia — About 2,000 years ago, Carthage — near Tunisia’s capital of Tunis and just south of Africa’s northernmost tip — was the wealthiest city in the Mediterranean, nestled into a vast ...

Le Corbusier, “Nature morte (Still life)” (1920), oil on canvas. (courtesy the Museum of Modern Art) With his heavy modernist hand and love of concrete, you wouldn’t really think of architect Le ...

French architect, professor, and scholar José Oubrerie died on March 10, age 91. Oubrerie was famously known as one of Le Corbusier’s closest protégés who completed Église Saint-Pierre in Firminy, ...

For the first time since its inception over a half-century ago, and after an extensive renovation, Le Corbusier's Pavilion—a museum designed by him, exhibiting works by him as well—has been completed ...

A MACHINE FOR READING LE CORBUSIER: TOWARDAN ARCHITECTURE Intraduction by jean-Louis Cohen. Translated by John Goodman. London: Francis Lincoln. 2007. £30 and £17.99 Since 1927, the English speaking ...