This article was originally published on Common Edge. This year marks the centennial of the first edition of Vers Une Architecture, Le Corbusier’s epoch-making book. Though a new English translation ...

Despite defiance from the Organizing Committee of the Exhibition, no money or formal site, Corbu, “wrote the rules of Modernism,” [1] with the Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau (according to Bayley). With ...

`The time of history ... a sea occupied by innumerable forms of a finite number of types.` George Kubler, The Shape of Time There is no single key to the enigmatic world of Le Corbusier. As well as ...

In the buildings of Balkrishna Doshi, the Indian architect who won this year’s Pritzker Prize, it’s easy to take the light for granted. Years ago, I visited the Ahmedabad campus of CEPT University, ...

TUNIS, Tunisia — About 2,000 years ago, Carthage — near Tunisia’s capital of Tunis and just south of Africa’s northernmost tip — was the wealthiest city in the Mediterranean, nestled into a vast ...

CHANDIGARH — As this city comes into view on the descent over the Himalayan plains, the first impression is unlike any other in India. There is a grid. There is order. Mumbai sprawls in wonderful ...

The psychological center of the Museum of Modern Art’s giant Le Corbusier retrospective, “An Atlas of Modern Landscapes,” is located in the second-to-last gallery. There, taking a few steps in any ...