Le Corbusier: Modernist Originality or Copying? - Audio

Dr Jan Birksted

While describing the genius of his originality and his ‘intuitive flashes of insight’, Le Corbusier systematically obliterated unwanted references from the works of his biographers and set up a carefully vetted archive called the Le Corbusier Foundation. This lecture considers the discovery of a recently discovered handwritten entry in a ‘lost’ (ie thrown away) Le Corbusier notebook, which indicates that he found (more than) inspiration in the wo...Read More

While describing the genius of his originality and his ‘intuitive flashes of insight’, Le ...Read More