Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even such a burning defender of Le Corbusier's work as red-bearded Professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock Jr. admitted last week in his introduction to an exhibition of the architect's work that "as his practice developed there was frequent amazement that his executed works were not, in an everyday sense, always practical." His constructed works have been few in number: a street of modern houses in Paris; an apartment house in Geneva; Salvation Army headquarters in Paris; a number of country houses for rich esthetes in Switzerland, Holland, France, all in the stark, boxlike manner that critics...
...Architect Le Corbusier's real service to modern architecture has been as philosopher and phrasemaker. Though the great expanses of glass that he favors may occasionally turn his rooms into hothouses, his flat roofs may leak and his plans may be wasteful of space, it was Architect Le Corbusier who in 1923 put the entire philosophy of modern architecture into a single sentence: "A house is a machine to live...
Realizing that the architecture he preaches represents a new manner of living as well as a problem in glass, concrete and steel, Architect Le Corbusier has turned more & more from the problem of the individual house to the intricate business of town planning. In La Ville Radieuse ("The Radiant City''), his newest book, published last September in Boulogne, he tries to express his idea of the city of the future in some 400 confused pages jammed with maps, plans, cartoons, old engravings, photographs. Slower minds could make little of it beyond the fact that...
...last week's lecture Architect Le Corbusier tried to explain his Radiant City all over again. Speaking no English, he strode up & down with a box of colored chalks before enormous sheets of thin paper on which he scribbled skyscrapers on stilts, trees, frogs, elevated roadways, blue clouds, orange suns. The secret of Radiant City seemed to be to limit motor traffic to elevated roadways, put all buildings on stilts with playgrounds and footpaths underneath, roof gardens above...
...still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints in his spare time and which he has never tried to sell. Not until after the Arts Decoratifs Exposition of 1925 did he gain an international reputation as a builder. By that time many a young architect was working on the problem of stripping the petticoat from architecture and making honest use of modern materials in building. But it remained for Le Corbusier to supply the crackling phrases which often did more to promote and popularize modern architecture than any number of houses in that style designed...