From the end of the 30s, the formulation of a new cultural, technological and political sensitivity towards climate, understood in a broad sense, reconsidered the relationship between the human body and its surroundings. This article balances Le Corbusier’s work against that hypothesis of the evolut...

Reference No No Level of description Archive Fund titled Le Corbusier Dates extremes 1908-1965 Name of the main Charles-Edouard Jeanneret producers, says Le Corbusier Langue des documents français Historique de la Conservation Fondation Le Corbusier (Paris), physical location Fondation Le Corbusier...

This research work develops recycling strategies based on sustainable concepts for the Civic Centre in Lima (Peru). It is a set designed by architects defined by modern trends in Europe, in particular Le Corbusier, Louis I. K, and Paul Rudolph. It is a time of design under the concept of the brutali...

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The lesson aims first to explain what we understand by architectural system, define it and assume it as a possible way of doing in relation to projects, and architectural works, the nature of which is essentially based on a certain repetition of programme units. In the case of RP3, the programme cho...

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The reports maintained by Le Corbusier, the most emblematic architect of modernity, with political power are fundamentally ambivalent. As a staunch promoter of happiness for all through architecture, Le Corbusier has buried with approximately all powers, apparently without testifying to political pr...

[ES] With the death of John Ruskin in 1900, a multifaceted intellectual whose life was handed over to theory and artistic criticism disappeared. Antithetics on many issues and parallels in terms of the scope, contradictions and humanism of his works, this article seeks the footprint of ruskinian the...

by Sylvette Denèfle and Noël Jouenne, as part of the conference cycle organised by the City of Architecture and Heritage and the Marseille Museum of History. This cycle complements the reflections in the exhibition on housing and reconstruction: the Cité en chantier.A slideshow illustrates the ethno...

Conference — Monday 15 April 201919: 00 Lycée Le Corbusier -44 rue Léopold-Réchossière 93300 Aubervilliers Free Isabelle Saint-Martin and Stéphanie Laithier, EPHE Si Jerusalem is central to imagination and representations, the “Three Holy City” is also regularly the scene of violent clashes and majo...

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Czech filmmaker Ivan Zachariáš offers in The Sleepers a complex spy plot in the weeks before the Velvet Revolution, which ended four decades of communism in Czechoslovakia. The locations of this TV series depersonalise the Gotic and Barroca monumental Prague characteristic of other audiovisual produ...

Abstract Geert Bekaert was born in 1928 in Kortrijk, Belgium, and wrote extensively about architecture throughout his life, mostly in his Dutch language; his essays have been collected in nine volumes published between 1985 and 2011. That same 2011, five years before his death in 2016, his disciple...

What would be the relationship between the rich historiography of ornament in the late nineteenth century and ornament’s ostensible eclipse from early twentieth-century building practice? Alina Payne’s From Ornament to Object retraces the gradual shift in interest from the endless stylistic iteratio...

On 7th June 1940, the village of Bosquel was almost entirely destroyed by the advancing German army. The tabula rasa caused by the war meant that their Town Planner, Paul Dufournet, and his project architects were able to completely redefine the structuring of the village, particularly the placement...

ResumenComo the Távora himself acknowledges, ‘I am very interested in Pessoa. I am a real expert on the topic’; just a look at his private library at Rua da Luz’s house, where he ended each day, read to sleep, to corroborate his near-fetichist obsession by him. This influence was parallel to that of...