Le Corbusier Renzo Piano   France   Richard Ingersoll. Con la inauguración de la actuación de Piano en Ronchamp sigue la polémica entre los enemigos y los defensores del proyecto. Los primeros critican su impacto; los segundos alaban su capacidad de enriquecer el singular enclave.

Le Corbusier   France   At the end of the fifties, the friendship between Le Corbusier and an important Dominican whose name rhymed with his own, Father Le Couturier, earned him the commission to build two religious projects bound to become exponents of contemporary archite

Le Corbusier   Germany   La vivienda en Berlín La Unité d'habitation «tipo Berlín». Construida con la Interbau fuera del Hansa Viertel.  24 Unité d'habitation. Le Corbusier, 1957-58. Heiselberger Dreieck, Charlottenburg...

Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he

Luis Fernández-Galiano gave a series of lectures over different years for the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation: ‘Jerusalén y Babilonia en el siglo XX’ ‘Del Gabinete al Campus: las transformaciones de la sede del Museo del Prado’ ‘El clasicismo

El País   Daniel Díez Martínez   Para el ruso Melnikov, su vivienda se convirtió en su cárcel. Philip Johnson exhibió su día a día en la Glass House y Le Corbusier eligió para él la cabaña más pequeña que jamás había diseñado. El edificio de viviendas sociales de El Ruedo (Madrid, 1

Eduardo Prieto   “May you live in interesting times”: the curse that has fallen upon us resembles the one that befell Europeans in the 1930s. The 1937 Paris International Exposition was the last major cosmopolitan event held in Europe before the apocalypse, and desp

The Guardian   2 September 1975: Pioneering designs, such as those by Le Corbusier, included outdoor spaces and gardens but these have been ignored, a symposium on buildings hears...

Tributes to artists tend to be post mortem. A case in point is Le Corbusier and his pavilion in Zurich, designed as a Maison de l’Homme in which to display the collection of the gallerist Heidi Weber, but which after opening in 1967, two years after

Le Corbusier, pavilion in Zurich.

Designboom   Situated on the very top of le corbusier’s cité radieuse in marseille — built between 1945 and 1952 — ora ito’s MAMO (marseille modulor) is a place among the clouds devoted to art and design. inaugurated in 2013, the project sees a different artist t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Le Corbusier continues to pass from lights to shadows. In 2015, the 50th anniversary of his death coincided with the publication of three books written by François Chaslin, Xavier de Jarcy, and Marc Perelman that examined his links to the Vichy regim

Eduardo Prieto   The piles of sketches, photographs, press cuttings, invoices, train/ship/airplane tickets, letters, telegrams, separatas, project texts, magazines, and books safeguarded at the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris are the ultimate source of material for t

Paz Martín   From adapted homes to collective residences through senior or assisted housing, there are many living models that give a dignified response to the special needs of people in the twilight of life.

François Chaslin   Twelve years after the publication of Le Corbusier’s correspondence with August Perret, and nine after that of his epistolary exchange with the painter Charles L’Eplattenier (his teacher in La Chaux-de-Fonds), Marie-Jeanne Dumont presents Le Corbusie

The Unesco Commitee that gathered in Istanbul on 10 July only to cut short its stay because of the 16 July coup d’etat attempt has added five new enclaves to its Heritage of Humanity list, among them seventeen buildings by Le Corbusier and the batter

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier still stirs the waters of debate. The major exhibition held at the MoMA in 2013 emphasized the landscaping aspect of an oeuvre that tends to be perceived as being removed from context; the no less importan

François Chaslin   Was Le Corbusier a fascist? This is the question that has made headlines thanks to a combination of events. On the one hand, the opening of the grand exhibition that the Centre Pompidou in Paris devotes to Le Corbusier on the occasion of the fiftieth

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Las grandes figuras del siglo XX transformaron el lenguaje de la arquitectura desde su familiaridad con los cánones clásicos. Aun en el caso de aquellos que no tuvieron una educación académica convencional, la sensibilidad clasicista les llegó a trav

Juan Calatrava   From his first travels in 1907 up to his death in 1965 Le Corbusier collected some 2,000 postcards, for him fertile tools in the creative process.

Tim Benton   When Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation (1947-52) was built, set against the undulating profile of the hills around Marseille, it stood tall and erect among a scattering of suburban houses and low-rise apartments. The assertive verticality of this blo

Maristella Casciato   If Chandi, supreme goddess of the Hindu pantheon and the eponymous divinity of the city of Chandigarh, ever played a celestial role in the selection of the site of the eastern Punjab’s new capital, it was perhaps enacted in the way she repelled, with

Jorge Francisco Liernur   As is well known, Le Corbusier embarked for Buenos Aires from Bordeaux on board the Massilia on September 14, 1929. One of his traveling companions was Adelina del Carril, who, along with her late husband, Ricardo Güiraldes (who had died in Paris two

Antoine Picon   With its immense and sensuous viaduct-housing, the main element of a composition that also comprises other apartment buildings and a business center, Le Corbusier’s Plan Obus for Algiers remains to this day an object of fascination, a provocation who

Josep Quetglas   Le Corbusier decried “les yeux qui ne voient pas”– unadventurous eyes incapable of seeing the new. He would frequently flip over one of his paintings in order to see it afresh; he proposed to those reading the Ronchamp volume of Les Carnets de la rec

Tim Benton  

Fernando Quesada   Ensayos y proyectos en torno a la Arcadia tecnificada

Maria Bonaiti   Villa Sarabhai, Ahmedabab, 1951-1956

Jorge Torres Cueco Juan Calatrava     2020  
Abada Editores   - 264 Pages 

Jorge Torres Cueco Juan Calatrava     2020  
Abada Editores   - 112 Pages 

Xavier de Jarcy Marc Perelman   Paris  2018  
Éditions Non Standard   - 272 Pages 

François Chaslin   París  2018  
Éditions Non Standard   - 520 Pages 

Jorge Torres Cueco Clara Elena Mejía Vallejo   Le Corbusier, cincuenta años después

Josep Quetglas   Madrid  2017  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 276 Pages 

Luis Rojo de Castro   Buenos Aires  2016  
Diseño Editorial   - 422 Pages 

Miquel Adrià   Arquitectos mexicanos tras la senda de Le Corbusier

José Ramón Alonso Pereira   Barcelona  2015  
Reverté   - 320 Pages 

Peter Wever   A Multimedial Space at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair

Werner Feiersinger Andrea Vass   Vienna  2015  
Scheidegger & Spiess   - 414 Pages 

Xavier de Jarcy   Paris  2015  
Albin Michel   - 287 Pages 

François Chaslin   París  2015  
Éditions du Seuil   - 524 Pages 

Anthony Flint   Nueva York  2014  
New Harvest   - 256 Pages 

Marc Perelman   París  2015  
Michalon   - 255 Pages 

Olivier Cinqualbre Frédéric Migayrou   Paris  2015  
Centre Pompidou   - 256 Pages 

Jorge Torres Cueco Le Corbusier   Madrid  2014  
Abada Editores   - 346 Pages 

Ricardo Daza   Barcelona   2015  
Fundación Arquia    - 319 Pages 

William Curtis   Londres  2015  
Phaidon   - 511 Pages 

Jean-Louis Cohen     2013  
Thames & Hudson   - 403 Pages 

Le Corbusier   Pamplona  2013  
Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA)   - 268 Pages