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Cover of the original work. The Poem of the Right Angle (Le poème de l'angle droit) is a series of 19 paintings and corresponding writings composed by the influential Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier between 1947 and 1953 and first published in book format as a limited edition of 250 copies in 1955.
The film revolves around Eileen Gray's E-1027 villa, one of the first homes Gray designed and also one of the first homes of the modern architecture movement, and Gray's relationship with fellow architect Le Corbusier, who erased Gray's recognition as the author of her work and as one of the most forceful and influential inspirations of modern architecture and design.
The city-planning of Le Corbusier found brief favour, with the architect writing a 'reply to Moscow' that later became the Ville Radieuse plan, and designing the Tsentrosoyuz government building with the Constructivist Nikolai Kolli. The duplex apartments and collective facilities of the OSA group were a major influence on his later work.
Located in Boulogne-sur-Seine, it was built in 1926 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret; and commissioned by American journalist William Cook and his French wife, Jeanne. [17] Le Corbusier deemed the house as "the true cubic house" (French: la vraie maison cubique), as its constructional plan originated from a square, rendering its cubic form ...
Le Corbusier and Ozenfant were the creators of Purism. Fernand Léger was a principal associate. [ 2 ] Purism was an attempt to restore regularity in a war-torn France post World War I. [ 1 ] Unlike what they saw as 'decorative' fragmentation of objects in Cubism, Purism proposed a style of painting where elements were represented as robust ...
The articles written by Le Corbusier for L'Esprit Nouveau comprise a number of those appearing in his seminal 1923 book Toward an Architecture. [ 3 ] L'Esprit Nouveau remained in publication until 1925, publishing a total of 28 editions.
The Athens Charter (French: Charte d'Athènes, Greek: Χάρτα των Αθηνών) was a 1933 document about urban planning published by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The work was based upon Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse (Radiant City) book of 1935 and urban studies undertaken by the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM ...
In 1924 he opened Académie Moderne, a free studio in Paris with Fernand Léger, where they both taught with Aleksandra Ekster and Marie Laurencin. [1] Ozenfant and Le Corbusier wrote La Peinture moderne in 1925 [3] and in 1928 Ozenfant published Art, which was subsequently published in English as The Foundations of Modern Art in 1931. In this ...