In February 1951, Le Corbusier went on his first trip to India. The Government of Punjab – the state that emerged in the northwest after the split of the British Raj – had tasked him with the urban planning of the new regional capital, Chandigarh. As
The fact that Le Corbusier, peintre à Cap-Martin (Éditions du Patrimoine, 2015) has now been published in English is a further step in the reexamination of Le Corbusier that we have been seeing for some time now, and specifically situates his artisti
A hundred years after it was published, Vers une architecture remains a source book for anyone wanting to know how the surge of modern architecture happened in the early 20th century. It is most certainly the most circulated, criticized, and interpre
La voluntad del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de la Comunidad Valenciana por divulgar la arquitectura que aquí se produce ha tenido un nuevo fruto. Esta monografía permite acercarnos de modo minucioso a la obra de Juan Antonio García Solera. Sin dud
La exposición de Josep Maria Sostres organizada por el Ministerio de Fomento y el Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluña viene a hacer justicia al interés que hoy suscita el arquitecto. Justicia porque se presenta una producción que en contadas ocasiones
I would like to have a house that resembles me (in beauty); a house that reflects my humanity.” This phrase, by Ernesto N. Rogers, summarizes the preoccupations concerning the one-family residence that emerge in the immediate postwar period, in the h