Tag Le Corbusier

22-06-2021

ARCHITECTURE & COMICS

“It is in the interest of those philistines to keep you off the game. I get annoyed about utopianism—that way they put you in a nice sort of box saying 'utopic’", Peter Cook

08-05-2018

Le Corbusier: The promise and challenge of Chandigarh.

The urban plan of Chandigarh, a city established in the early ’50s following India’s proclamation of independence from the British Empire, represented Le Corbusier’s highly utopian personal vision of urban planning.

13-03-2018

Balkrishna Doshi wins the 2018 Pritzker Prize

Architect Balkrishna Doshi has won the 2018 Pritzker Prize, becoming the first Indian architect to win the "Nobel Prize" of architecture.

30-11-2017

Restoration of the Esprit Nouveau pavilion in Bologna

A true copy of Le Corbusier’s Esprit Nouveau pavilion was recently restored and returned to the city of Bologna. The replica was built in 1977 for France’s participation in SAIE.

05-07-2017

FAV 2017 all about emotion

The twelfth Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV) has opened the various spaces in the town centres of Montpellier and La Grand Motte showcasing the temporary works of eleven groups of young designers.

02-06-2017

Moxon Architects, a modern hut in the Scottish Highlands

In the Cairngorms National Park, in the Scottish Highlands, Moxon Architects have created a building that reinterprets traditional mountain huts and blends harmoniously with the Scottish Highlands.

01-06-2017

Mudun Vitra Design Museum Gallery Exhibition

Mudun مدن Urban Cultures in Transit, an exhibition where stories of buildings, cities and men combine, to show how urban spaces transform cultural identity.

16-05-2017

Exhibition Sguardi sul Mondo - Franco Albini fotografo

As part of the 10th anniversary of the Fondazione Franco Albini, the exhibition Sguardi sul Mondo - Franco Albini fotografo (Views of the World - Franco Albini photographer), opened on 11th May. It presents selected photographs by the architect, which represent his precise way of investigating reality.

09-11-2016

SUMMARY and infrastructure-structure-architecture in Venice

With his installation “infrastructure-structure-architecture” Samuel Gonçalves from SUMMARY architecture firm took prefabricated elements of a real, existing project - Gomos System - to the Arsenale of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.