Alan Colquhoun: Le Corbusier
From the Machine a habiter to L´Homme Reel
Between the two wars Le Corbusier attempted top set out a complete system of modern architecture, in this talk I will be concerned with one aspect of this system: the private dwelling and its equipment. Beginning with the concept „abstract man“ and the house as a „Machine a habiter“ I will discuss Le Corbusier´s idea of the „Type-Object“ as it applied to furniture, to the Pavillion de l´Esprit Nouveau at theExposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris of 1925 and to the „canonic“ houses of the 1920s. I will then describe the „turn“ which took place in Le Corbusier´s view of modern architecture in the 1930s with modern technology now put at the service of „L´Homme reel“ – a man moved by his passions and embedded in particular traditions.
- Kategorie:
- Vortrag
- Veranstaltungsort:
- Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Aula
- Schillerplatz 3
- 1010 Wien
- wien
- Veranstalter:
- Institut für Kunst und Architektur, Akademie der bildenden Künste
- Ansprechpartner:
- DI Antje Lehn
- Telefon:
- T +43 (0)1 /588 16-248
- Email:
- a.lehn@akbild.ac.at
- Zusatzinformationen:
- Alan Colquhoun,
Born in 1921 he studied at the School of Architecture Edinburgh College of Art (1939-1941) and at the Architectural Association, London (1947-1949, AADipl).
Practice:
Co-principal Colquhoun+Miller Architects, 1961-1988
Teaching:
Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University 1979-1996 now Prof. Emeritus Also taught at the AA, London, the Polytechnic of Central London, Harvard University, University of Virginia, Cornell University NY and L´Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
Books:
Essays in Architectural Criticism, (IAUS/MIT Press Cambridge, MA 1981) Modern Architecture and the Classical Tradition: Architectural essays, 1980-1987 (MIT Press, 1989) Modern Architecture (Oxford University Press, UK 2002)