🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 14: Rising towers
youtu.be/9tlT-CXHf24
From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt
youtu.be/9tlT-CXHf24
From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 14: Rising towers
youtu.be/9tlT-CXHf24
From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt
youtu.be/9tlT-CXHf24
From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt
Weird category error to state that a house built in the 1930s can’t therefore be a mansion.
This one is Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, 1931. Here’s another one: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, 1937. Apparently not a mansion.
This one is Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, 1931. Here’s another one: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, 1937. Apparently not a mansion.
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Weird category error to state that a house built in the 1930s can’t therefore be a mansion.
This one is Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, 1931. Here’s another one: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, 1937. Apparently not a mansion.
This one is Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, 1931. Here’s another one: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, 1937. Apparently not a mansion.
The Xenakis Emulator is an audiovisual homage to architect–composer Iannis Xenakis. It recreates the structural logic of his composition Metastaseis and Le Corbusier’s monastery facade La Tourette through synchronized digital sound and animation. More at Architecturewriter, link in comments
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Xenakis Emulator is an audiovisual homage to architect–composer Iannis Xenakis. It recreates the structural logic of his composition Metastaseis and Le Corbusier’s monastery facade La Tourette through synchronized digital sound and animation. More at Architecturewriter, link in comments
Hervé de Looze, a postwar architect linked to Le Corbusier's ASCORAL group and Formes Utiles, promoted functional modern designs.
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Hervé de Looze, a postwar architect linked to Le Corbusier's ASCORAL group and Formes Utiles, promoted functional modern designs.
Gray's citations of ancient Greek vase painting surely would have worked better in E.1027 than Le Corbusier's murals ...
"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."
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"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."
(image link in 1st post)
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Gray's citations of ancient Greek vase painting surely would have worked better in E.1027 than Le Corbusier's murals ...
"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."
(image link in 1st post)
"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."
(image link in 1st post)
Finished up the annual Paris Christmas trip with a visit to Corbusier's buildings for the Cité Internationale Universitaire.
December 28, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Finished up the annual Paris Christmas trip with a visit to Corbusier's buildings for the Cité Internationale Universitaire.
Mixity is good. All the attempt to artificially separate uses (zoning laws, Le Corbusier's Athen chart, cutting neighborhoods with highways etc...) are generally harmful to cities.
May 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Mixity is good. All the attempt to artificially separate uses (zoning laws, Le Corbusier's Athen chart, cutting neighborhoods with highways etc...) are generally harmful to cities.
None of these guys would stand a chance against Le Corbusier's oddly bulky Modular man.
April 24, 2024 at 1:57 PM
None of these guys would stand a chance against Le Corbusier's oddly bulky Modular man.
Villa Savoye is Le Corbusier’s iconic representation of a 'machine for living in.'
Clean lines, open spaces, and functional design redefined how architecture could serve daily life.
#VillaSavoye #LeCorbusier #ModernArchitecture #MachineForLiving #ArchitecturalStories
Clean lines, open spaces, and functional design redefined how architecture could serve daily life.
#VillaSavoye #LeCorbusier #ModernArchitecture #MachineForLiving #ArchitecturalStories
January 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Villa Savoye is Le Corbusier’s iconic representation of a 'machine for living in.'
Clean lines, open spaces, and functional design redefined how architecture could serve daily life.
#VillaSavoye #LeCorbusier #ModernArchitecture #MachineForLiving #ArchitecturalStories
Clean lines, open spaces, and functional design redefined how architecture could serve daily life.
#VillaSavoye #LeCorbusier #ModernArchitecture #MachineForLiving #ArchitecturalStories
it sounded so evocative, also knew nothing about eileen gray and corbusier’s “collision”
February 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
it sounded so evocative, also knew nothing about eileen gray and corbusier’s “collision”
For me, it's Corbusier's design for Tokyo's National Museum of Western Art.
December 31, 2024 at 9:04 AM
For me, it's Corbusier's design for Tokyo's National Museum of Western Art.
I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy - he clearly influenced Robert Moses), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.
An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you […]
An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you […]
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September 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy - he clearly influenced Robert Moses), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.
An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you […]
An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you […]
The staircase's graceful form enhances the villa's clean lines and open spaces, making it a quintessential example of Le Corbusier's architectural philosophy.
Photo: Cemal Emden.
Photo: Cemal Emden.
December 16, 2024 at 7:31 AM
The staircase's graceful form enhances the villa's clean lines and open spaces, making it a quintessential example of Le Corbusier's architectural philosophy.
Photo: Cemal Emden.
Photo: Cemal Emden.
I visited an exhibition focusing on Le Corbusier's late-life paintings.
Unlike his architecture, they are quite complex, but the presentation was very easy to understand.
What do you feel about it?
Unlike his architecture, they are quite complex, but the presentation was very easy to understand.
What do you feel about it?
January 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I visited an exhibition focusing on Le Corbusier's late-life paintings.
Unlike his architecture, they are quite complex, but the presentation was very easy to understand.
What do you feel about it?
Unlike his architecture, they are quite complex, but the presentation was very easy to understand.
What do you feel about it?
Tonight's modern Lego architecture project: Villa Savoye (which means I have also read hilariously dry statements like, "While the implementation of Le Corbusier's 'Five Points' would complicate the building process and, later, create a number of practical issues for the Savoye family...")
December 3, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Tonight's modern Lego architecture project: Villa Savoye (which means I have also read hilariously dry statements like, "While the implementation of Le Corbusier's 'Five Points' would complicate the building process and, later, create a number of practical issues for the Savoye family...")
Green & Grey. From the Barbican to Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation and Marcio Kogan’s Casa Cubo. A new volume published by Hoxton Mini Press presents a wide-ranging parade of old and new Brutalist buildings. All of them covered with moss or other plants
A book on Brutalism covered with plants | Abitare
A new volume published by Hoxton Mini Press presents a wide-ranging parade of old and new Brutalist buildings. All of them covered with moss or other plants
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September 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Green & Grey. From the Barbican to Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation and Marcio Kogan’s Casa Cubo. A new volume published by Hoxton Mini Press presents a wide-ranging parade of old and new Brutalist buildings. All of them covered with moss or other plants
At least Le Corbusier had green spaces around his boxes.
This picture has a bit of a futurist vibe to me, especially the cars rushing off into empty space down at the bottom. The futurists, like Le Corbusier's modernism, had a bunch of big, bold, and dangerous ideas.
This picture has a bit of a futurist vibe to me, especially the cars rushing off into empty space down at the bottom. The futurists, like Le Corbusier's modernism, had a bunch of big, bold, and dangerous ideas.
July 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
At least Le Corbusier had green spaces around his boxes.
This picture has a bit of a futurist vibe to me, especially the cars rushing off into empty space down at the bottom. The futurists, like Le Corbusier's modernism, had a bunch of big, bold, and dangerous ideas.
This picture has a bit of a futurist vibe to me, especially the cars rushing off into empty space down at the bottom. The futurists, like Le Corbusier's modernism, had a bunch of big, bold, and dangerous ideas.
March 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Ballet Mécanique, designed by Manuel Herz
Ballet Mécanique is a 600 m² house in Zurich near Le Corbusier’s Heidi Weber Museum. Surrounded by a wild garden, it combines geometric villa forms with dynamic architecture that responds to its natural and sculptural context.
Ballet Mécanique is a 600 m² house in Zurich near Le Corbusier’s Heidi Weber Museum. Surrounded by a wild garden, it combines geometric villa forms with dynamic architecture that responds to its natural and sculptural context.
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Ballet Mécanique, designed by Manuel Herz
Ballet Mécanique is a 600 m² house in Zurich near Le Corbusier’s Heidi Weber Museum. Surrounded by a wild garden, it combines geometric villa forms with dynamic architecture that responds to its natural and sculptural context.
Ballet Mécanique is a 600 m² house in Zurich near Le Corbusier’s Heidi Weber Museum. Surrounded by a wild garden, it combines geometric villa forms with dynamic architecture that responds to its natural and sculptural context.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) :
Taureau
The story of the Taureau series in the first alt text 👇
These are only 4 of the 21 in the series.
Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.
Taureau
The story of the Taureau series in the first alt text 👇
These are only 4 of the 21 in the series.
Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.
December 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) :
Taureau
The story of the Taureau series in the first alt text 👇
These are only 4 of the 21 in the series.
Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.
Taureau
The story of the Taureau series in the first alt text 👇
These are only 4 of the 21 in the series.
Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.
Today I learned about Le Corbusier’s plan for Algiers. Plan Obus indeed! The article misses what I think is the most correct translation: that of an artillery shell blasting apart the old Casbah. Totò le Moko engaged more seriously with Algiers than this plan ever did!
Le Corbusier's Algerian Fantasy
Le Corbusier came to Algiers almost by chance. On the occasion of the centennial celebration of French rule in 1931, a new city plan was unveiled by Henri Prost and the French colonial government…
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October 6, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Today I learned about Le Corbusier’s plan for Algiers. Plan Obus indeed! The article misses what I think is the most correct translation: that of an artillery shell blasting apart the old Casbah. Totò le Moko engaged more seriously with Algiers than this plan ever did!
I think there might be an argument to be made out of the Chicago School urbanists of the 20s. They had some ugly, antiurban views at times, but they also recognized the beautiful complexity of urban life and that it had many positives.
Perhaps their views could have sunk in more than Corbusier's?
Perhaps their views could have sunk in more than Corbusier's?
June 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I think there might be an argument to be made out of the Chicago School urbanists of the 20s. They had some ugly, antiurban views at times, but they also recognized the beautiful complexity of urban life and that it had many positives.
Perhaps their views could have sunk in more than Corbusier's?
Perhaps their views could have sunk in more than Corbusier's?
Le Corbusier’s masterpiece, the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut above Ronchamp in Haute-Saône, eastern France. #architecture #lecorbusier #photography
June 27, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Le Corbusier’s masterpiece, the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut above Ronchamp in Haute-Saône, eastern France. #architecture #lecorbusier #photography
Inside Le Corbusier’s Swiss Pavilion;
In through the compact glassy foyer, with light on all sides, in the compact lounge with Corb/Perriand furniture, up the swerve of the stair to the student rooms - all 17m2 with their own bathroom & built in storage, generous sliding window, bright ceilings
In through the compact glassy foyer, with light on all sides, in the compact lounge with Corb/Perriand furniture, up the swerve of the stair to the student rooms - all 17m2 with their own bathroom & built in storage, generous sliding window, bright ceilings
June 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Inside Le Corbusier’s Swiss Pavilion;
In through the compact glassy foyer, with light on all sides, in the compact lounge with Corb/Perriand furniture, up the swerve of the stair to the student rooms - all 17m2 with their own bathroom & built in storage, generous sliding window, bright ceilings
In through the compact glassy foyer, with light on all sides, in the compact lounge with Corb/Perriand furniture, up the swerve of the stair to the student rooms - all 17m2 with their own bathroom & built in storage, generous sliding window, bright ceilings
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Fascinating film about Corbusier’s Chandigarh, which seems to have been very successful, and continues to be to this day. As a medium-rise city, it’s interesting to hear residents deriding the high-rise apartments now being constructed nearby.
adffnewyork23.eventive.org/films/64dfd0...
Fascinating film about Corbusier’s Chandigarh, which seems to have been very successful, and continues to be to this day. As a medium-rise city, it’s interesting to hear residents deriding the high-rise apartments now being constructed nearby.
adffnewyork23.eventive.org/films/64dfd0...
May 16, 2024 at 5:48 AM
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Fascinating film about Corbusier’s Chandigarh, which seems to have been very successful, and continues to be to this day. As a medium-rise city, it’s interesting to hear residents deriding the high-rise apartments now being constructed nearby.
adffnewyork23.eventive.org/films/64dfd0...
Fascinating film about Corbusier’s Chandigarh, which seems to have been very successful, and continues to be to this day. As a medium-rise city, it’s interesting to hear residents deriding the high-rise apartments now being constructed nearby.
adffnewyork23.eventive.org/films/64dfd0...