Posts tagged 'Le Corbusier'

Charlotte Perriand

On a tall plinth outside the grand, gilded Petit Palais is a small aluminium spaceship. In 1938, Charlotte Perriand and her collaborator Pierre Jeanneret designed

Toys of the Avant-Garde

It is no coincidence that Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller were all taught in kindergartens, the school system that introduced building blocks

20/20 Clip Stamp Fold

Print publishing just keeps on going no matter how much we proclaim its demise. A trip to my local bookshops reveals a fresh crop of

La Trufa by Anton Garcia-Abril and Ensamble Studio

It’s rare that a building looks like nothing else of its kind, but “La Trufa”, by Anton Garcia-Abril and Ensamble Studio is one such work.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s Appartement 50 Installation

The redesigned living room: Cloud, Kvadrat; Zip carpet, Vitra; LightHouse, Established & Sons and Venini; and SteelWood collection, Magis Unité d’Habitation, Le Corbusier’s housing block

Chiaki Arai’s Ofunato Civic Centre

Ofunato Civic Centre and Hall, also known as Rias Hall “About eight years ago I was about to give up.” A rare pause interrupts Chiaki

The Tricorn

Labyrinthine and weird, the Tricorn shopping centre was a brutalist fantasy that was doomed to failure in 20th-century Portsmouth. Owen Hatherley enjoys a belated obituary.

Jasper Morrison

Some “super normal” design in Morrison’s shop Jasper Morrison is a quiet man. You need to pay attention or you could miss what he’s saying.

The Militant Modernism

It’s good to see modernism wrestled out of the jaws of the middle classes and the heritage industry, says William Wiles. Did modernism win? The

Architecture Depends

Architects need to be less autonomous and engage with the everyday, argues Jeremy Till, but this could well be a case of merry myth-making, says

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