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Grassroots Modern (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Here is a teaser for a great looking documentary. I’d love to know more about German Samper Gnecco, unfortunately my spanish is horrible. Here is what I have been able to pick up. He is one of Colombia’s most influential architects in the 50’s 60’s and 70’s, he studied under Le Corbusier and did [...] Related posts: Coast Modern Film Jodlowa House Way Back When: Mies van...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five From the silent epics of DW Griffiths through Art Deco spectaculars like Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 to Pixar's wonderful WALL-E (2008), the connection between architecture and film has always...
Discovering Urbanism (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The New York Times takes a rather pessimistic view of the future of bike-sharing in Paris: " Just as Le Corbusier’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris’s bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change ." That is: an idealistic vision that has come crashing into reality...
Martin Klasch (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Art by Lou Loeber, 1927 Gouden vlinders / versjes door S. Franke ; plaatjes van Lou Loeber Via BibliOdyssey Lou Loeber (b Amsterdam, 3 May 1894; d Blaricum, 1 Feb 1983). Dutch painter. She trained at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam (1915-18). She discovered Cubism, especially that of Albert Gleizes, the work of De Stijl and of Le Corbusier in 1919. During 1920-21 the form in her work became more rigid...
Martin Klasch (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Le Corbusier Will's Online World Paper Money Gallery Via Coudal Partners/MoOM ---
fotoLibra Newsfeed (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Hi Members, L.A. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: FOLLY EXHIBITION Minimum pixel dimensions: 4000 x 3000 Portrait or landscape; colour or B&W Deadline: Monday 16th November 2009; 10:00 GMT To submit images to Picture Calls in fotoLibra, simply click on the Picture Call megaphone icon below a thumbnail in your Collections, and select the relevant FOLLY EXHIBITION picture call from the drop-down menu...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
HAMBURG, GERMANY - As of November 3rd, Flo Peters Gallery will present René Burri, one of the last remaining great photography legends of the 20th century. The show gives a comprehensive insight into the work of the Swiss photographer and takes the observer onto a journey through the 20th century : From Swiss rural life to roman dolce Vita as well as Argentinean Gauchos and impressions of Maoist...
Market Power (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
From the New York Times: Just as Le Corbusier's white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib', Paris's bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change. Residents...
The Whig (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Just as Le Corbusier ’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris ’s bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change . Residents here can rent a sturdy bicycle from hundreds of public stations and pedal to their destinations , an inexpensive, healthy and low-carbon alternative to hopping...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- "The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism" (Knopf, 544 pages, $40.00), by Nicholas Fox Weber: In this informal group biography, art historian Nicholas Fox Weber, author of "Le Corbusier" (2008), profiles six key artists and architects from the experimental teaching institution known as the Bauhaus , which flourished in Germany amid the cultural ferment of...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The problem with the idea of the Brasilia of the North is that Newcastle never found a northern Oscar Niemeyer. This was not for want of trying. Smith invited Le Corbusier to design what would have been his only British building, although it never worked out. He did manage to convince the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen (designer of that other 1960s icon, those curved chair which Christine Keeler famously...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
One of the most arresting passages in Family Britain, the second instalment of David Kynaston's projected four-volume account of the period 1945-1979, takes in the opening of the controversial Kidbrooke school in Hunstanton, West Norfolk. Designed by the "iconoclastic" young husband-and-wife team of Peter and Alison Smithson, acclaimed by certain architects as a stunning example of the Le...
Architecture Revived (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Renzo Piano transformed the historic Lingotto building into a mixed-used complex of hotels, concert halls, cinema, shops, and businesses. Mattè Trucco designed the automobile factory 1923 with its distinctive racetrack on the rooftop. Modernist Le Corbusier praised the innovative design as the largest and most respected plant of its day. Fiat closed the factory, but Lingotto moved to solidify...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Dali contemplated the mouth of MAE WEST and saw a sweet seat. Luscious pink lips were now molded and poised aloft, billowing and buoyant, nothing underneath them but stillness and the clean bottom of a floor. • • The Mae West Lips Sofa was voted one of the all-time favorites of designer furniture — — according to the findings of a survey recently conducted by INDEX, the leading...
Apartment Therapy (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Last week we discussed the controversial Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Although his architecture is largely out of style – the apex of 20th century functionalism – his furniture is still a p
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/12/2009
Chandigarh Police Constables Recruitment Results 2009 At www.chandigarhpolice.com Chandigarh Police has been playing a key role in keeping the city Beautiful-Chandigarh a role model city as was dreamt by its planner Le-Corbusier. Though he planned the city for only 5,00,000 people, but today its population has crossed those limits but the police force remains lesser in number. Read More From Orginal
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