Le Corbusier’s urban work never managed to make the leap from proposal to reality, a happy state of affairs for modem urban critics being that his plans, if they had been thus transformed, would have signified irreversible and not necessarily positiv
Le Corbusier’s contribution to city planning was so radical and innovative that one is still taken aback when evaluating his work, though shock is not the most appropriate attitude to take when considering his enlightened and messianic proposals. In
Although the Modern Movement as a whole was determined to meet the challenge of overcoming sub-standard human housing, Le Corbusier’s contribution to this effort stands out alone. Reyner Banham, while noting the points shared by all 20th-century urba
In his article, Roger Aujame looks optimistically at the historical moment in which the five Unités d’Habitation were built as well as at the theoretical context for that typological innovation. A double point of view is taken: that of one of Le Corb
The Marseilles Unité was a jolt for post-war Europe. Just as Picasso’s «Guemica» had shocked people during an era of violence and destruction, the Unité was an optimistic call for experimentation, an invocation of joie de vivre. According to Tzonis a
Esta breve selección de dibujos de la Fundación Le Corbusier-Archivo Garland es un esbozo del itinerario seguido por Le Corbusier en su línea de investigación sobre la vivienda colectiva. Algunas observaciones generales pueden ser formuladas incluso
There is often a paradoxical relationship between the message behind Le Corbusier’s works and their constructive reality. The elevation of machinism to the category of an aesthetic principle, with smooth finishing and clean surfaces, represents a des
The affirmation that modern architectural theory and practice do not always coincide is not exactly a great critical revelation. The identification of the reason for this contradiction, however, is of great interest when analyzing the advances of an
Le Corbusier’s inventiveness was based on what he himself called knowing how to see. He no doubt had known how to see Anglo-Saxon architectural spaces during the early years of his career and incorporated them into his ideas about planning houses. In
The work of the pioneer is always subject to stimulating yet uncertain experimentation, and all innovations should be able to prevail when compared with reality, allowing for technical limitations and the passage of time. In the 1920s, Le Corbusier b
Le Corbusier se distingue de otros maestros modernos en que él mismo se encargó de ir publicando su obra arquitectónica ya desde 1929, llegando a sacar siete volúmenes a los que se añadió en 1969 el octavo tomo con las últimas obras. Todo ello consti
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