Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture of a lean, excitable Swiss in gaudy tweeds and enormously thick horn-rimmed spectacles. The lecturer's name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The traditionalists were outnumbered three to one by excited modernists" and lion-hunting socialites, because M. Jeanneret, 47, better known under his professional name of Le Corbusier, has had more effect than any living man on the development of modern architecture, and has become the patron saint of a whole school of ardent practitioners who write tomes on the subject of Corbusierismus...
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...
...scrimmage lineup: Higgs, le.; Burton, l.t.; Blatchford, l.g.; Jones,e.; Allen, r.g.: Watson, r.t.; Hallett, r.e.: Blackwood, q.b.; Oakes, l.h.b.; Ecker, r.h.b.; Watt...