Book Review: LC Foto: Le Corbusier Secret Photographer [PDF]
Widely regarded as the most influential architect of the twentieth century, Le Corbusier wrote more than fifty books, nearly all of them with extensive illustrative text. Yet in these books he almost never used the photographs he himself took.
Naegele, Daniel, Naegele, Daniel
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Concept of the “Selection, Tradition, Creation” Exhibition (1941) by Charlotte Perriand
ABSTRACT This paper aims to clarify the concept of the “Selection, Tradition, Creation” Exhibition (1941) by the French furniture decorator and architect Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), to analyze her interpretation of Japanese “folklore” during her one‐year stay in Japan to teach export crafts.
Shoichiro Sendai
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El gran Corbu, espectacular e inédito. Reseña de 'Le Corbusier Le Grand' (Phaidon, Londres, 2008) [PDF]
Reseña de 'Le Corbusier Le Grand' (Phaidon, Londres, 2008)
Sainz Avia, Jorge
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URBAN PLANNING PARADOXES AND SOCIOSPATIAL FRAGMENTATION: The Superblock Barcelona Case (2016–2023)
Abstract Barcelona is an interesting living laboratory for studying the role of the local scale in urban planning. Since the early stages of what is known as the Barcelona Model (1979–1994), analysis of Barcelona's urban planning based on the creation of public spaces at a local scale has become a priority. More recently, micro‐scale urban planning has
Lluís Frago, Alejandro Morcuende
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Recuperando o caderno de notas de Le Corbusier em Chandigarh
Le Corbusier. Album Punjab 1951. Maristella Casciato (ed.). Zurich, Suiza, Lars Müller Publishers, 2024, 208 páginas.
Anat Falbel
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Strands of theatre: Le Corbusier’s staging of the Palace of the Soviets, 1931 [PDF]
El proyecto para el concurso del Palacio de los Soviets en Moscú (1931) de Le Corbusier plantea otra posible y más fragmentaria clave de interpretación que, aunque en principio sea más marginal, merece ser mencionada: la relación con el teatro, con la ...
González Cubero, Josefina
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A city of newcomers: Migration and solidarity in the former East Germany
Abstract This article examines how urban temporalities have come to alternately foster and hinder migrants' incorporation into the larger social body. It draws on ethnographic and archival research conducted in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, and focuses on the so‐called “migrant crisis” of 2015, which resonated with earlier migration histories in the ...
Samantha Maurer Fox
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Built‐environment stocks in the context of a master‐planned city: A case study of Chandigarh, India
Abstract Construction materials accumulate in the built environment forming material stocks (MS) of buildings and infrastructure, providing various services to society that result in a nexus of human development and environmental impact. Meanwhile, unprecedented urbanization in the Global South is set to put significant demand on the resources required
William Mihkelson +3 more
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The process for designing and constructing the Sunpu Kaikan
Tange and a model of Sunpu Kaikan. Abstract This study aims to reveal the difficulty of realizing large hyperbolic paraboloid (HP) shell structures comprising reinforced concrete in earthquake‐prone Japan in the 1950s. The analysis focused on the design and construction of Sunpu Kaikan, focusing on the roles of Kenzo Tange and Yoshikatsu Tsuboi ...
Saikaku Toyokawa
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Drawing-over: une vie decantée. Le Corbusier y Louis Soutter
Louis Soutter, primo de Le Corbusier, era un afamado violinista que, al final de su vida, fue internado en un sanatorio suizo. Soutter amaba dibujar. Sus figuras humanas, lascivas y alargadas, flotan juntas como un fluido, extendiéndose de arriba a abajo
Daniel Naegele
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