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Tag Archives: Le Corbusier
art for buildings sake
The Richards Medical Building won Louis Kahn the Brunner Prize for 1960, annually awarded by the National Institute of Arts and Letters to the architect who contributes to “architecture as art.” The professional journals rushed to applaud the center, and … Continue reading
utopia : bauhaus uber alles?
The Bauhaus as the end of art as a humanizing activity. Not even the marker of Benjamin’s messianic nihilism. Just the nihilism of barbarous anonymity. A lifeless black hole. Maybe, ultimately, Bauhaus is so anti-kitsch it is kitsch. Is the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ernst neufert, herbert bayer, joost schmidt, kamprad ikea, Le Corbusier, ludwig karl hilberseimer, Martin Heidegger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, otti berger, peter keler bauhaus, Slavoj Zizek, Susan Sontag, Theodore Dalrymple, tom sachs artist, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius
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beggin’ brothers: mystery at the altar
“My monastery descends from the heavens, touching the earth only where it must.” – Le Corbusier. A sacred melancholy. An esthetic hardness at the expense of spirituality. Not much glory here. Little aura of radiance that emanates from god, no … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged alvar aalto, church architecture, corbusier la tourette, couturier church, couturier tourette, famous Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, iannis xenakis, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, religious architecture
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gaudi: modernismo and expensive fantasy
Exotic . Yes. somehow deaf to the entreaties of the less is more school. Almost no one would want to see a landscape completely filled by lesser Gaudi clones, but a little more exoticism that follows the path of the … Continue reading
SYMPATHETIC TO THE AESTHETIC OF EXCESS
We are creatures of clutter in an age of clutter. Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. The world is a thingdom. The history of civilization is a history of things, both for survival and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Beryl Sokoloff, Charles Eames, Clarence Schmidt, Do Nothing machine, Ferdinand Cheval, Isaiah Zagar, Le Corbusier, Mary Blair, Ray Eames, Richard lacayo, Rolly Crump, Simon Rodia, Walt Disney
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