Le Corbusier: The Architecture Of Reinvention Part 1

Lecture date: 20010310 Le Corbusier: The Architecture Of Reinvention 1, 3 Le Corbusier s apparent dominance of twentiethcentury architecture resulted from his interaction with a broad range of media painting, drawing, architecture, city planning and publishing. This conference discusses some of the issues raised by the AA exhibition Le Corbusier: The Architecture of Reinvention that explored how the tensions between these media were used to form his identity. Tim Benton on Le Corbusier and the villas in the suburbs of Paris (35 mins) Fernando Prez Oyarzn on Le Corbusier in South America (22 mins) Hilde Heynen on Le Corbusier and the idea of the avantgarde (32 mins Charles Jencks on Le Corbusier and the revenge of the book (21 mins) Panel discussion (22 mins)