Le Corbusier: The Architecture Of Reinvention - Part 1

Lecture date: 2001-03-10 Le Corbusier: The Architecture Of Reinvention 1/3 Le Corbusier's apparent dominance of twentieth-century architecture resulted from his interaction with a broad range of media - painting, drawing, architecture, city planning and publishing. This conference discusses some of the issues raised by the AA exhibition Le Corbusier: The Architecture of Reinvention that explored how the tensions between these media were used to form his identity. Tim Benton on Le Corbusier and the villas in the suburbs of Paris (35 mins) Fernando Prez Oyarzn on Le Corbusier in South America (22 mins) Hilde Heynen on Le Corbusier and the idea of the avant-garde (32 mins Charles Jencks on Le Corbusier and the revenge of the book (21 mins) Panel discussion (22 mins)