Word: corbu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, homage is being rendered to Corbu in Zurich. A brand-new two-story center there will soon display samples of his paintings, sculpture, lithographs, tapestries, blueprints and models. The building itself, which was opened to the public this summer, is already drawing a thin but steady stream of pilgrims. The geometric cascade of rhomboids and squares, built of bared steel girders, glass and brightly enameled panels of green, red, white and yellow, might have been designed by Corbu himself...
...center, which is called Corbusier's Maison d'Homme, was the idea of Heidi Weber, a vivacious blonde interior decorator who manufactures Le Corbusier-designed furniture in Switzerland. At first, the irascible old architect himself was opposed to the idea, but she won him over. Corbu drafted the plans and bequeathed the center his personal collection of lithographs. Then he died-and the controversy began...
Nonetheless, the vast majority of the center's visitors seem to like it. Chief among them is Corbu's brother, Composer Albert Jeanneret, 83. Says he: "This is one of Corbu's masterworks, a perfect assembly of volumes and obliques. This house is a part of Corbusier and therefore inimitable...
...view of the Alps. On its surface of rough poured concrete, the marks of wooden forms remained like a touch of man's hand-a touch that so many modern glass-and-steel structures lack. At Chandigarh, the new governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp, France, with a roof shaped like a nun's coif (the shape also helps to project a preacher's voice). His only U.S. building is at Harvard...
...Although Corbu became the most influential, and possibly the most irritable architect of the 20th century (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), he could only bear the friendship of down-to-earth people, such as his Monaco-born wife Yvonne Gallis, who died in 1957, and the Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated...