Le Corbusier et la question du brutalisme, au J1

It is only fair that this major exhibition on Le Corbusier’s work takes place in Marseille, on the beloved Mediterranean shores, in the town of the « Cite radieuse », first construction in which LC experimented the « romantisme du mal foutu ».

The exhibitions reveals the architect but also the painter and sculptor 

Accounts of his travels

A project that very much captured my attention is « Maison Errazuriz, Chile », and I hope that one of my Chilean readers can answer a couple of questions I have. The plans are dated 1930 and the house was planned to be built on a hill, by the sea, see picture underneath. To me it looks like Zapallar, and thepicture looks like it’s taken from the hill past « Cesar » when walking along the beach, but I don’t recall seeing a house like this in that location, it’s a more New England looking house if I remember right? Was it ever built? Is it there somewhere? I’m intrigued… 

Without transition…. LC painter, voyage en Orient

LC sculptor, « La Mer »

LC galerist in his own place

Le Modulor, first used in the Cite Radieuse

A cross section through 2 double aspects duplexes with a central access through a « street », the basic unit of the Cite radieuse

Cabanon, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, 1949

Views from the front bay of the J1

Eglise de Firmny, dated 1964, only recently completed

Mural on plywood, Paris 1948

Designs for « Tapisserie d’Aubusson »

Chapelle de Ronchamp

Enamel painting, 1965

« Puissent nos bétons si rudes révéler que sous eux, nos sensibilités sont fines…. » Le Corbusier