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...Corbusian dream of the "white world," the building as a metaphor of clarity, order and singularity set against the enveloping otherness of nature. (If Mies and the grid-internationalists have ceased to be quotable, Le Corbusier has not; and the difference is due to the richness of Corbu's ideas, his use of volume and surface rather than abstract space.) Meier's architecture is highly abstract, but it is not inhospitable. A project like his Bronx Development Center in New York City, with its suavely detailed metal walls, certainly alludes to the Corbusian machine look; but it would not have...
...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...
...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...