What do an Ikea showroom floor, urban housing projects and Kanye West have in common? They've all been inspired, at least to some degree, by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier. Though his ...

NEW YORK — Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, the architect who renamed himself Le Corbusier, was blessed when it came to his formation as a thinker, designer and theorist of the modern world. He came from ...

Love him or hate him, you can’t say that Le Corbusier didn’t have a profound impact on the urban landscape. This was the guy, after all, who gave us the projects, or, as he preferred to call them, ...

What moves us humans, physically and emotionally? This is the theme explored by the protagonist of modern architecture Le Corbusier (1887-1965) as well as by the great Danish artist Asger Jorn ...

A MACHINE FOR READING LE CORBUSIER: TOWARDAN ARCHITECTURE Intraduction by jean-Louis Cohen. Translated by John Goodman. London: Francis Lincoln. 2007. £30 and £17.99 Since 1927, the English speaking ...

Britain exported the architectural style to West Africa and India, but local practitioners adapted it for a different climate and a new kind of politics. By Emily LaBarge The first Indian to receive ...

Designed in 1928 and still produced by Cassina today, the LC4 by Le Corbusier, Jeanneret and Perriand demonstrates that good ...