Tag: modern architecture
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Video of the Week IX: Le Corbusier’s Mediterranean cabanon comes to London
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…
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Video of the Week V: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Ok – enough of the sordid student activities (for now at least). How ’bout something a little more cerebral, in the form of a discussion of the role of Modernist houses in Hollywood movies. The somewhat droll announcer explores the association of villainy with Modernism – something to keep in mind when you pen the design for your next…
