Tag: Le Corbusier

1946 was an eventful year

Apr 28, 2009

# AC History, HISTORY, RANTING

Of course everyone knows that the Arch Centre was born – no doubt on a dark and windy Wellington evening – on Tuesday the 23rd of July 1946 in the Baronia Lounge.
Video of the Week IX: Le Corbusier’s Mediterranean cabanon comes to London

Mar 17, 2009

# Uncategorized, Video of the Week

The blurb says: Le Corbusier’s summer cabin – a tiny bolthole built in the south of France for his wife – has been reconstructed at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. Jonathan Glancey steps inside to discover what it tells us about the architect’s other monumental buildings It’s kind of mind-blowing that it is in this space…
The architecture of the automobile

Mar 12, 2009

# RANTING

OK, so we have already discussed cars on this site, but that was regarding the ever-expanding girth of both us, and the automotive metal which we wrap around ourselves before hurtling through the landscape at great speed (OK, much less speed through the cityscape…). But what about the relationship between architecture, and the car itself…? Those…