Le Corbusier

Iraq's Modern Past

2012-02-16-archdailyreal.jpg | Posted 04.25.2012

By Vanessa Quirk (click here for original article) Gymnasium in Baghdad, Sketch by Le Corbusier. ©SketchPlanet In Upstate New York, reside...

Dwell Magazine's Top 10 Best Homes In America

Posted 11.24.2011

The editors at Dwell sifted through the hundreds of homes featured over the past ten years to create their new special issue, Best Homes in America. ...

PHOTOS: Architecture For The City Bird

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.29.2011

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Architect to the urban aviary set, Street Artist XAM is one rare bird. Averaging one per week over the last year, the California born former graffiti ...

Pablo Picasso: 130 year Influence on Architecture

Tom Mallory | Posted 12.27.2011

Tom Mallory

I think it was painting - that of Pablo Picasso overwhelmingly so - that influenced modern architecture to start challenging the boundaries and possibilities of three-dimensional space. Cubism was always destined to be a 2-dimensional art form but the brave and deconstructive thinking behind it has transcended the arts and in its own way has massively influenced the architecture around us.

PHOTOS: 10 Icons Of Modern Architecture

Tom Mallory | Posted 09.05.2011

Tom Mallory

A few weeks ago ICOMOS' recommendation against the registering of 19 buildings designed by Le Corbusier in the World Heritage List provoked heated dis...

Top 10 Computer-Designed Buildings

Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012

Adel Zakout

The advent of the industrial revolution, mass production and large-scale manufacturing industries during the last two centuries has had a revolutionar...

Le Corbusier Designed City Being 'Stripped For Parts'?

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

A piece in the Guardian suggests that Chandigarh, the city in the north of India planned essentially from scratch by the Swiss-French modernist archit...

Talking Urban: A Review of The Language of Towns and Cities by Dhiru A. Thadani

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Frank Gruber

The Language of Towns and Cities is an oddly personal work. I say "oddly," because the book's title invokes that most characteristically objective of all books, the dictionary.

Drawing Like a House Afire

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

J. Michael Welton

These days,it's almost impossible to find a young architect who can draw freehand. To others, though, a computer and a pencil are simply two different ways of developing an idea. There are those who can draw, and those who prefer a computer.

Toward an Instant City

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

J. Michael Welton

The exhibit at 1500 Gallery shows photojournalism from the heady 1950s when the instant city of Brasilia rose up out of the South American desert draws distinct parallels between then and now.

Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: An Exclusive Interview With the Pritzker Prize-Winning Architects of SANAA

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Patricia Zohn

2010-04-01-outside.jpg Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa say, "Our working world is very much like a big family. We like thinking about architecture. We keep each other from losing our way."

Re-Imagining The Book: iPad, Kindle And Now Architect Rem Koolhaus

Justin McGuirk | Posted 05.25.2011

In Britain we're sceptical of the idea of the architect as intellectual. Most people probably aren't aware that there's a whole realm of architecture ...

RIP Alexander the Great

Daria Shualy | Posted 05.25.2011

Daria Shualy

Tthe thing I do love about high fashion is the extent to which it is art. And in this aspect, for me, no one was more of an artist than Alexander McQueen.