“Architecture and Revolution”: Le Corbusier’s Architecture and Politics from Regional Syndicalism to Vichy
Event details
| Date | 10.03.2016 |
| Hour | 18:00 |
| Speaker | Mary Mc Leod, Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
This lecture examines Le Corbusier’s architecture and planning proposals from the1930s to World War II, examining in particular his projects for the Radiant City, Radiant Farm, and Algiers. It focuses on the relationship of these works to his political ideas, especially his involvement with a little known political movement Regional Syndicalism during the 1930s, which was part of a larger tendency in France during the period known as l’esprit des années trente. It also considers his involvement with the Vichy government in the early 1940s and the projects undertaken under its auspices. More generally, it explores the transformation in his aesthetic approach from the white villas of the 1920s to the more rustic and regionally based projects of the 1930s and how this transformation might be linked to the changes in his ideological position during this period.
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- General public
- Free
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- Archizoom