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Iraq's Modern Past

| Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Le Corbusier, Iraq Architecture, Iraq, Le Corbusier Gymnasium, Baghdad Gymnasium, Iraq Modern Architecture, Le Corbusier Building Iraq, Culture News

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

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Dwell Magazine's Top 10 Best Homes In America

Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: American-Homes, Modernism, Eero Saarinen, American Homeowners, Architecture, Le Corbusier, Homeowners, Modern Architecture, American Architecture, Functionality, Real Estate, Arts News

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. ...

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PHOTOS: Architecture For The City Bird

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Mies Van Der Rohe, Brooklyn, Dwelling Units, Daniel Libeskind, Xam Bot, Urban Ornithologist, Gustav Klimt, Street Art, Feeding Units, Street Artist, Steven P. Harrington, Humorist, Designer, Graff Writer, Engineer, Victor Horta, Social Activist, Biomimicry, Archtecture, Santiago Calatrava, William McDonough, Environmentalism, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jaime Rojo, Social Activism, New York City, Architect, Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, Art in the Streets, Non-Dwelling Units, Razzel Dazzel, Environmentalist, Xam, X Charles & Ray Eammes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Xam-Bot, Arts News

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 ...

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Pablo Picasso: 130 year Influence on Architecture

Tom Mallory | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier, Cubism, Frank Gehry, Slidepollajax, Braque, Czech Cubism, Steven Holl, Arts News

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.

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PHOTOS: 10 Icons Of Modern Architecture

Tom Mallory | Posted 09.05.2011

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

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Top 10 Computer-Designed Buildings

Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Parametric, Mies Van Der Rohe, Art Meets Science, Modernism, Frank Gehry, Design, Architecture, Parametric Design, Buildings, Cad, 3d Modelling, Gehry, Slidepollajax, Le Corbusier, Architects, Technology, Arts News

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

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Le Corbusier Designed City Being 'Stripped For Parts'?

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chandigarh India, City Up for Auction, Le Corbusier Chandigarh, Wright Auction House, Chandigarh Zoo, Indian Artifacts on Auction, Auction, Le Corbusier, Le Corbusier India, Indian-Art, Chandigarh, Arts News

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...

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

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Urbanism, Urban Planning, Urbanism, Seaside (Florida), Dhiru A. Thadani, Modernism, Le Corbusier, Kentlands, Modernist Urban Planning, Urban Sprawl, Books News

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.

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Drawing Like a House Afire

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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Toward an Instant City

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Duda Paine, Brazil, Richard Meier, Brasilia, Rio De Janeiro, Architecture, Le Corbusier, World Cup, Mark Twain, Journalism, Photojournalism, Arts News

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.

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

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Niemeyer, Sanaa, Venice Biennale, Comme Des Garcons, Le Corbusier, Christian Dior, REi Kawakubo, Pritzker Prize, Pritzker Architecture Prize, World News

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."

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

Justin McGuirk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oma, Architecture, Rem Koolhaus, Monographs, Le Corbusier, Books, Books News

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 ...

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RIP Alexander the Great

Daria Shualy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 12" Boots, Platform Shoes, Sense of Fashion, London Fashion Week, Alexander McQueen, Fashion, British Fashion, Rip, High Fashion, Antoni Gaudí, Charles Darwin, Le Corbusier, Gustav Klimt, Frank Gehry, Hundertwasser, Style News

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.

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