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Le Corbusier

May 2024

  • Welcome to the Inca citadel … Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré’s Hotel in Machu Picchu, Peru, 1969.

    How the world could have looked: the most spectacular buildings that were never made

    A mega egg in Paris, a hovering hotel in Machu Picchu, an hourglass tower in New York, a pleasure island in Baghdad … we reveal the architectural visions that were just too costly – or too weird

March 2024

  • High Court Projected by architect Le Corbusier Chandigarh

    Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows

    Modernist architecture’s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new exhibition

February 2024

  • La Cité Radieuse building, Marseille, France, designed by Le Corbusier.

    From the Guardian archive
    A ‘vertical community’: Le Corbusier’s project at Marseille – archive, 1949

    2 February 1949: Cité Radieuse will be more like a town than an apartment building, says the Swiss-French architect

January 2024

  • Iannis Xenakis

    Visionary composer, polymath and ‘true cosmopolitan’: Greece finally pays tribute to Iannis Xenakis

    National museum in Athens mounts major retrospective for pioneer of avant-garde music and apprentice to Le Corbusier who was sentenced to death by the military

October 2023

  • Roof Terrace of the Modernist & Brutalist Cite Radieuse or Unite d'Habitation (Housing Unit) by Le Corbusier in Marseille, France.

    Thomas Heatherwick gets Le Corbusier all wrong

    Letters: Readers respond to an interview with the designer Thomas Heatherwick, who denounced the architect Le Corbusier as ‘the god of boring’

June 2023

  • Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France.

    100 years of Le Corbusier: what does he mean to today’s architects?

    The towering and divisive figure who transformed architecture published his manifesto for modernism in 1923. Here leading architects explore his legacy and influence

September 2021

  • FR - COTE D'AZUR: Village of Roquebrune Cap Martin<br>ADJ8MN FR - COTE D'AZUR: Village of Roquebrune Cap Martin

    On holiday in southern France chez Le Corbusier

    The wild coast between Monaco and Italy is home to Le Corbusier’s holiday cabin – and his favourite beach bar-next-door

November 2020

  • A visitor to Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924-2020 looks at Pedro Friedeberg’s Hand Chair c. 1965.

    Madrid surrealism show offers escape from pandemic reality

    Exhibition explores how surrealist movement influenced culture and design in 20th century

September 2020

  • Sheffield’s Park Hill Flats in 1972, typical of the many high-rise tower blocks built in the city during the 1960s.

    From the Guardian archive
    Tower blocks are 'not so bad' – archive, 1975

    2 September 1975: Pioneering designs, such as those by Le Corbusier, included outdoor spaces and gardens but these have been ignored, a symposium on buildings hears

April 2020

  • Survived target practice by Nazis … Eileen Gray’s villa, with Bibendum and Transat chairs.

    A €22m chair? Eileen Gray, the design genius who scared the pants off Corbusier

    Her ravishing interiors shocked Paris, thrilled the avant-garde and gave the world its most expensive chair. But the fast-living aristocrat wasn’t just overlooked – Le Corbusier actually vandalised her work naked

October 2019

  • A Convair flying car, pictured in 1948

    A down-to-earth view on flying cars

  • Protesters marching in 1972 against the proposed closure of Covent Garden and its relocation to Nine Elms.

    Concrete bungle: how public fury stopped the 1970s plan to turn London into a motorway

  • Photograph by Chris Leslie

    Cities in depth
    The 'Glasgow effect' implies cities make us sad. Can the city prove the opposite?

  • Mischievous spirit … Perriand’s Les Arcs 1600 ski resort in the late 1960s.

    Charlotte Perriand: the design visionary who survived Le Corbusier's putdowns

September 2019

  • Illustrations from The Journal of the New Alchemists

    Observer Design
    The New Alchemists: could the past hold the key to sustainable living?

    It’s 50 years since the New Alchemy Institute created its ‘living machine’ – a research project of organic farming, renewable energy and sustainable architecture. Did these eco pioneers design a blueprint for our future?

July 2019

  • Minnette da Silva

    Book of the day
    Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto review – an architectural romance

    The richly imagined story of an affair between Le Corbusier and Sri Lanka’s first modernist architect, Minnette de Silva

December 2018

  • Obrady w auli Politechniki Wrocławskiej<br>Wrocław, 1948-08-25. Światowy Kongres Intelektualistów w Obronie Pokoju (25-28 VIII) w auli Politechniki Wrocławskiej. Nz. delegacja z Cejlonu: architektka Minnette de Silva oraz polityk Georges de Silva. Obok siedzi amerykański dziennikarz i publicysta Albert Kahn. ka PAP <ENGLISH> Wroclaw, Aug. 25, 1948. The World Congress of Intellectuals in Defence of Peace (Aug. 25-28) in the Wroclaw Technology University. Pictured: the delegation from Ceylon: architect Minnette de Silva and politician Georges de Silva. Next to them US journalist and political commentator Albert Kahn. ka PAP </ENGLISH>

    Minnette de Silva: the brilliant female architect forgotten by history

    Against all odds, the 1940s pioneer of Sri Lankan modernism became one of the world’s most famous women architects. So why are her buildings not celebrated today?

July 2018

  • Le Corbusier Villa Savoye France

    OK, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea review – strikingly original debut

    There’s a void where his personality should be and he turns into a stalker – but somehow the narrator of this strange tale exerts a powerful grip on the reader

July 2017

  • Arne Jacobsen: Rothenborg House, Klampenborg, Denmark, 1931

    Giants of modernist architecture – in pictures

    Ever since Le Corbusier’s rallying cry in 1929, sleek slabs on stilts and levitating levels have proliferated. Here we celebrate 90 years of playful, efficient elegance

April 2017

  • A man stands by the colourful entrance portal

    Urban eye
    The city Le Corbusier built: inside Chandigarh – in pictures

    In 1950, India’s prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru invited the architect Le Corbusier to design a modernist city that broke with the country’s colonial past
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