Art market looks ugly Oct 31, 2009
Modern works by the likes of Le Corbusier, Nicolas de Stael and Dubuffet, including one at 1. 5-million, sold within hours of opening at FIAC.. (iAfrica.com)
New book puts a spotlight on the Bauhaus movement Oct 30, 2009
00), by Nicholas Fox Weber: In this informal group biography, art historian Nicholas Fox Weber, author of "Le Corbusier" (2008), profiles six key artists and architects from the experimental teaching institution known as the Bauhaus, which flourished in Germany amid the cultural ferment of the Weimar era only to be shuttered by the Nazis. Although the Bauhaus exerted a profound influence on the development of European and American modernism, it did not espouse any single style or aesthetic. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
* Music and its links with math Oct 20, 2009
That ratio has been observed frequently in dimensional proportions across many different contexts X in architecture from the Pyramids of Giza and the Parthenon, to constructions by Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe; images by artists from Da Vinci and Albrecht Durer to Juan Gris, Mondrian and Dali; and rhythmic durations and pitch ratios in works by composers from Bartok and Debussy to John Coltrane and Steve Coleman. (Coleman introduced me to this whole idea. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Book offers a look at thoroughly modern design Oct 11, 2009
The book is organized by design period, and topics include the craft movement, Le Corbusier, Murano glass and funk-ceramics sculptor David Gilhooly. As Miller advances through the century, she presents image galleries of furniture, metalwork and ceramics from different eras. (Montana Standard, MT)
The Museum, from the Louvre to the ... Sep 26, 2009
The Heidi Weber Museum in Zurich, is a centrepiece for the work of the Swiss architect, Le Corbusier. An exciting and stunning modern piece of architecture, built with stone, steel, glass and concrete and utitlsing subtle colours, the museum houses various works, designs and sculptures of Le Corbusier. (Suite101.com)
Rediscovering Modernist homes on Cape Aug 13, 2009
Featured speakers are Krueger, who served as project architect for Harvard s Carpenter Center, which was designed by Le Corbusier - one of the European pioneers of Modern architecture ... His lecture will focus on his collaboration with Le Corbusier and its effect on his work. (Boston Globe)
Recent highlights from the Ideas blog Jul 26, 2009
In his version of the story, just published by the art-book publisher Corraini (and available in both Italian and English), the three little pigs appear in the form of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry. Albeit with snouts. (Boston Globe)
Lieberman's works make a big impression Jul 11, 2009
Other photographs show Le Corbusier s Villa Savoye, a Williams College power plant and a shed situated in front of a grove of trees in Mississippi. That last image, in its strict frontality, is emblematic of the lucidity and straightforwardness of Lieberman s approach. (Boston Globe)
Piedmont teen - from traffic signs to furniture May 28, 2009
It is modeled after Chaise Lounge Model No. B306 designed in 1928 by French architect Le Corbusier. But while the original chaise used pony skin and leather, David's interpretation relies on the metal signs, and other recycled materials, shaped in flat and tubular arrangements. (San Francisco Chronicle)
He made despair glamorous, but was Francis Bacon truly great? May 24, 2009
He began his creative career as a designer of modernist rugs and furniture in the vein of Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, and Eileen Gray, and it's hard not to see the carefully plotted designs of his later canvases, especially the great triptychs, as vestiges of this period. The fund of remarkable anecdotes relating to Bacon's life is almost inexhaustible, and not entirely incidental to the impact of his paintings. (Boston Globe)
Abroad: In London, admiration for an old foe Mar 27, 2009
"Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture" has drawn crowds to the Barbican Center in London, part of a complex designed in a Brutalist vein that Le Corbusier inspired ... It's odd to think that the Modernist architect Le Corbusier has had a bigger influence on housing in Britain than in any other European country ... Big crowds have been visiting the gallery, itself a sign of some Corbu revisionism in that the Barbican, opened in 1982 near St. Paul's Cathedral and designed by the British firm... (International Herald Tribune)
Harvard exhibits present a carnival of opposition Mar 25, 2009
L spars with Le Corbusier, the legendary modern architect who designed the inhospitable-looking structure that is the Carpenter Center ... L was invited to create an installation about the Carpenter Center, the only North American building designed by Le Corbusier ... These include what appears to be a photo of Le Corbusier dressed as a French maid. (Boston Globe)
Complexity and contradiction in urban India Mar 10, 2009
Designed by a French-Swiss architect and town planner, Le Corbusier, Chandigarh is a curious mix of rational Beaux-Arts planning, the monumental building, wide tree-lined avenues, and sprawling residential neighborhoods. A vocabulary for an "Indian" architecture was sought in its low-cost housing using local materials. (Asia Times Online)
A peak inside studios of famous artists Mar 7, 2009
STOCKBRIDGE - The architect Le Corbusier called houses machines for living. Artists' studios might be defined as cocoons for making. (Boston Globe)
Chair design in Melbourne Mar 5, 2009
1928: Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriands LC/4 Chaise Lounge Beckoning us was a sculptural reclining chair designed by the Bauhaus Frenchman Corbusier we Indians acclaim as the architect of Chandigarh, and his cousin Charlotte Perriand. Padded leather cushion and head-rest, chrome-plated tubular steel frame and matte black steel base, comprised Corbusiers most successful design, admired and criticised equally on the comfort factor. (India Times)
Cities captured by master strokes Feb 22, 2009
"Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture": The Barbican Art Gallery has brought together a wide range of works by or related to the renowned Swiss architect who helped transform 20th-century design ... Also on display are works by both contemporaries and collaborators of Le Corbusier, such as Fernand L. (Boston Globe)
Who's responsible for all the concrete carbuncles? Feb 20, 2009
Le Corbusier's Unite D'Habitation (left) has spawned thousands of imitators ... But as a new exhibition celebrates the work of Le Corbusier, architect and writer Guy Booth argues that his legacy was monstrous ... Chandigarh's assembly building is one of Le Corbusier's most famous. (BBC News -- UK)
Studio featured on 'Queer Eye' ready to sell its shares Feb 19, 2009
When the company began, it quickly found a niche by featuring designs by such renowned names as Eames and Le Corbusier made by European manufacturers including Herman Miller, Flos and Vitra. Both Badovinus and Forbes have extensive backgrounds in design and retailing, including at San Francisco's Williams-Sonoma Inc. Badovinus also is a former chief executive officer of Eddie Bauer, and Forbes was director of business development at Smith n.. (Yahoo News -- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
