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.

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

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

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.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Le Corbusier left us fifty years ago, but he is still stubbornly among us. The centennial of his birth in 1987 brought about a broad critical review of his legacy, which this magazine collected in two consecutive issues of that year (AV 9 and 10), wh

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 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 

Josep Quetglas   Madrid  2017  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 276 Pages 

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

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

Miquel Adrià   Arquitectos mexicanos tras la senda de Le Corbusier

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

José Ramón Alonso Pereira   Barcelona  2015  
Reverté   - 320 Pages 

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