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Article: Le Corbusier the life of forms: 'the time of history ... a sea occupied by innumerable forms of a finite number of types.'.(history)(In memoriam)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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10 Photograph: Monte L. Bryer, RIGA Library Photographs Collection
There is no single key to the enigmatic world of Le Corbusier. As well as being an architect and an urbanist, he was a painter, a sculptor, a writer and a designer of furniture. A founding father of Modern architecture, he was constantly inspired by nature and tradition. His buildings move us directly through their control of form, space, light, material and proportion, but they also crystallise a vision of the world. They are like constructed myths combining Utopian visions for the future with reminiscences of an idealised past. Le Corbusier is a figure of vast historical dimensions who presents ...