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...raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...
...argue . . . they are unyielding, irreconcilable . . . they know no common denominator. . . . But now they are on top, before the door. They enter. They go down the road, but this time take it on the inside. These two men will part differently than when they met." -Real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret...
...foundered. Four arch-conservative architects had won the Geneva competition, pooled their resources to design the cumbersomely classic stone pile which was finally finished in 1938-when there was no longer much use for it. But the "rightful winners," according to the Museum, were Frenchmen Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who had proposed a terraced glass-and-concrete palace in the strictest "functional" tradition. This time, urged the Museum, the UNO planners should "learn from Geneva and select an international jury of honest men, sensitive to the modern spirit in architecture...
Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...
...Other early Internationalists: Germany's Miës van der Rohe, Holland's J. J. P. Oud, Switzerland's Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret...