Last Friday, at the Art-o-Rama festival in Marseilles, France, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly—the American, Paris-based artists known as Gerard & Kelly—debuted the sixth chapter of their ongoing ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first ...
Le Corbusier deserves better than to be merely “a whipping boy for modernism’s failures,” said Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times. For decades, critics have blamed the Swiss-born architect ...
French architect, professor, and scholar José Oubrerie died on March 10, age 91. Oubrerie was famously known as one of Le Corbusier’s closest protégés who completed Église Saint-Pierre in Firminy, ...
To even the most casual observer, Le Corbusier has become a household name. His lifetime achievements in brutalist architecture, city planning, and pilotis represent his tireless search for modernism, ...
As works from Thessa Herold’s personal collection are offered online, we look back at a life devoted to cutting-edge art and artists, and explore some of the highlights of the sale.
NEW YORK — It’s easy to imagine that “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes,” a vast, dense and beautifully installed new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, began as a kind of parlor game.
A retrospective closes this weekend at MoMA on Swiss architect Le Corbusier, best known for his residential projects like Villa Savoye (as well as that chair). But I’d argue that his most genius work ...
Chaslin’s research uncovered anti-Semitic sketches attributed to Le Corbusier. These shocking revelations come just as France is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the architect’s death (see A New ...
A HOUSE IS NOT A MACHINE to live in," wrote the pioneering modernist Eileen Gray in response to Le Corbusier's oft-quoted line about a house being a machine á habiter. "It is the shell of man—his ...
Le Corbusier, “Nature morte (Still life)” (1920), oil on canvas. (courtesy the Museum of Modern Art) With his heavy modernist hand and love of concrete, you wouldn’t really think of architect Le ...
Swiss watch brand Rado has launched True Square Thinline Les Couleurs Le Corbusier, three limited-edition timepieces that use architect Le Corbusier's "naturally harmonious" colour palette. Made from ...