Two years later, Le Corbusier, the high priest of modern architecture, gave the complex his blessing.
In 1930 he moved to Paris and worked briefly for the architect Le Corbusier.
Nearby is the booming city of Chandigarh, where, coincidentally, Bhatia was born (and which is itself an architectural creation of Le Corbusier).
The craze for tower blocks now regarded as one of the worst mistakes in post-war British planning took its inspiration from Le Corbusier's designs.
Americans didn't need to concern themselves with the architectural intricacies separating Gropius the polemicist from Mies the poet, let alone Le Corbusier the theoretician.
Why, then, with this assured position, is Aalto's name so little known to a public that recognizes Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright without difficulty?
The metal and leather headphones have a timeless look, like a piece of high-end furniture designed by Le Corbusier or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Their indoor rooms may contain examples of work inspired by such modern masters as Le Corbusier, Breuer and Starck, with prints by Warhol and Matisse.
Why, then, with this assured position, is Alvar Aalto's name so little known to a public that recognizes Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright without difficulty?
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However, you can also look up from the half-timbered facades of "Tudorbethan" semis to see powering along the horizon a file of Le Corbusier-style multi-storey blocks.
He would surprise questioners by mentioning Frank Lloyd Wright, an American traditionalist, and Le Corbusier, a Swiss-born architect famous for his massive box-like blocks of flats.
It was designed and built in 1974 by Kunio Maekawa, a pupil of Le Corbusier best known for his public buildings in Tokyo, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
Le Corbusier's were wrecked by the adoption of high rises for human habitation - something he never envisaged, believing that most people should live in comparatively low-rise apartment buildings.
Monumental and dramatic combining the influences of Robert Mallet-Stevens, Donald Judd and Le Corbusier the pieces, though spectacular in an Art Brut sort of way, are not exactly what you would call warm and cozy.
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Drawings of James McNeill Whistler, Charles Baudelaire and Max Beerbohm, followed by 20th-century photographs of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Andy Warhol, make the case for dandyism as an aesthetic stance, the domain of artists.
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In recent years, some of the nation's real-estate developers and even government officials have been churning out detailed counterfeits of the West's greatest architectural hits, from Unesco World Heritage sites to Le Corbusier gems to Manhattan skyscrapers.
The title is meant to evoke wind, sails and also pajamas, for this is a Hindi word, and Rauschenberg made these mostly textile and wood objects during a 1975 stay at the Sarabhai family's Le Corbusier-designed house in Ahmedabad.
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Named for Le Corbusier who designed the nearby Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (his only building in North America), the 4, 000-sq-ft spa has seven treatment rooms and will use fresh and locally-sourced ingredients in its scrubs, lotions and wraps.
Enthralled by the European sophistication of Gropius (who had once been married to Alma Mahler), MoMA's young architecture curator Philip Johnson in 1932 set about canonizing him and Mies, as well as representatives of other European countries such as the French architect Le Corbusier.
Lying abed, looking at the Emerald City of unfettered finance capital coruscating across the rooftops of the Victorian corridor streets that Le Corbusier and Howard so decried, I can appreciate that enacted here is the most important axiom of contemporary architecture - form follows finance.
When the early modernist message crackled across Europe like an electric charge, Aalto was quick to enter the charmed circle that included Le Corbusier, the historian Siegfried Giedion, and artists like Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi and Fernand Leger, whose organic abstractions were soon to influence his own use of form.
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