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Events | Information ENGLISH VERSION FONDATION LE CORBUSIER EXHIBITIONS | PUBLICATION | EVENTS | INFORMATION APRIL 2021 We are pleased to announce the reopening of the Villa Curutchet, the Villa Le Lac and the Maison Blanche (Villa Jeanneret Perret) while other sites such as the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut or the Péniche Louise-Catherine are the subject of major restoration campaigns. We are grateful to the institutions and donors who, through their support, contribute to the protection and transmission of Le Corbusier's work. Until we meet again, we invite you to join us on social networks to share new discoveries such as "Le Corbusier, dialogue of arts" and "Le Corbusier, planet as a construction site" EVENTS Call for collaborative art projects 2021 UH of Firminy As part of the European Heritage Days 2021, the Association of the inhabitants of the Unité d'habitation de Firminy is launching a call for collaborative art projects on the theme "I love Le Corbusier". More.... Espace Bézard-Le Corbusier Reopening from March 28, 2021 by appointment. The Espace Bézard - Le Corbusier is dedicated to the utopian project of the Radiant Farm and the Cooperative Village imagined in the 1930s by Norbert Bézard and Le Corbusier. Plans, models and archives trace the history of this project. Ceramics, drawings and paintings by Norbert Bézard are also presented. Association Piacé le radieux, More .... Bézard - Le Corbusier PUBLICATION Growing up Modern The architectural philosophy Childhoods in Iconic Homes of Le Corbusierer Julia Jamrozik, Coryn Kempster Mickaël Labbé How does one grow up in a modernist Le Corbusier is an architect who residence? not only builds, but who never ceases to tell us how we should Does this environment shape children's build. Through a patient and future view of architecture? detailed study of the architect's texts, the vision of one of the great The authors conducted interviews with those creators of modernity is presented who spent their childhood in radically in its multiple dimensions. modernist buildings and spaces. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021. Birkhäuser | 2021 SUPPORT THE RESTORATION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL WORK Notre-Dame-du-Haut Chapel, Ronchamp Protected as a historical monument since 1967 and registered with 17 works of Le Corbusier on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016, the Notre-Dame-du-Haut Chapel is the subject of a vast restoration project until 2024. More ... SUPPORT Visit of the Chapel by the Scientific Committee on February 16, 2021, Ronchamp Web-Série "La Chapelle en Chantier" 2021-2024 Opus #1 Opus #2 What is concrete? The south façade, how is it built? More ... More ... Kembs-Niffer Lock The project to restore the control tower and the administrative building of the Kembs-Niffer lock, classified as a historic monument since 2005, has been selected by the Stéphane Bern 2020 mission. The water tower of Podensac, since 2019, also benefits from this program of calls for participatory donations of the Heritage Foundation. The water tower of Podensac, since 2019, also benefits from this program of calls for participative donations of the Fondation du Patrimoine. SUPPORT En savoir plus ... Asile Flottant Built in 1915 and converted by by Le Corbusier as a floating asylum for the Salvation Army in 1929, the Péniche Louise Catherine, had sank during the flood of the Seine in February 2018. The reinforced concrete barge, classified historical monument, has welcomed homeless people for 65 years with a social restaurant and 160 beds during the winter periods. Support the restoration project of the barge carried out with the DRAC Ile de France and the Le Corbusier Foundation by the Japanese Association of Architectural Design (ADAN), owner of the barge since October 2020. SUPPORT More ... PRESERVATION OF THE WORK The Fondation Le Corbusier is doing restoration work during the closing of the House due to the health crisis. These works concern the painting of the entrance hall and annex rooms according to the color palette discovered during the 2009 restoration. The maintenance and repair of the wooden and woodwork metal are also on the program. These works are conducted under the control of the Regional Conservation of Historic Monuments, DRAC Ile-de-France and Pierre-Antoine Gatier, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments. The Fondation Le Corbusier is pleased to thank Cassina for its support. INFORMATION Open to the public Villa Le Lac April-May-June 2021 Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 pm out of schedule by appointment (groups). --------------------------------------- Exhibition From April 3 to May 30, 2021: Camera Anima by Michel Lorand (Belgium). Discover... Video installation. Open to the public Maison Blanche Opening hours: Friday - Saturday - Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. DIscover. Discover the new web site! Open to the public Casa Curutchet Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 5. p.m. Réservation requested : [email protected] Discover.. +54 221 421-8032 BROADCAST ASLC Annual Meeting About sixty members and partners of the Association des Sites Le Corbusier - coming from Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and France - met for the Annual Meeting 2020-2021 Association des Sites which was held by videoconference. Le Corbusier You can watch the webcast here. 1st February 2021 LE CORBUSIER FROM HOME #3 Due to government measures, the Fondation Le Corbusier remains closed to the public. With the Le Corbusier From Home program, the Fondation team invites you to discover or rediscover the life and work of Le Corbusier, with two weekly online appointments: Tuesday: "Le Corbusier, dialogue of arts" to discover a selection of his pictorial projects in connection with his favorite themes. Thursday: "Le Corbusier, the planet as a worksite" to discover a selection of his unrealized or unfortunately destroyed architectural projects. Join us ! #LeCorbusierChezVous #CultureChezNous #LeCorbusierFromHome #MuseumFromHome Le Corbusier, dialogue of Arts PAINTING PURISM "Painting is a terrible, intense, merciless battle, without "From 1918 to 1927, my paintings borrowed their form witnesses; a duel between the artist and himself. The battle only from bottles, carafes and glass on bistro or is inside restaurant tables. Severe discipline, austere but fruitful - inside - unknown to the outside." discipline: one must seek and one must find." Le Corbusier, The Workshop of Patient Research, p. 219 Le Corbusier, Unité, 1948 pp. 45 Je rêvais (1ère version), 1953 Nature morte du Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau, Huile sur toile 1924 Dimensions : H : 1,30 m x L : 1,62 m Huile sur toile Signé et daté en bas à gauche Le Corbusier 21 octobre 53 Dimensions : H : 0,81 m x L : 1,00 m Au dos : Je rêvais 21 oct. 53 Le Corbusier Signé et daté en bas vers la droite Jeanneret 24 Peinture FLC 141 Tuesday #1 Tuesday#2 Discover Discover Le Corbusier, the planet as a worksite. Projects not realized or demolished. Foreman's house Villa Meyer, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1925 "We took up the study of the Loucheur house of 1929. We applied it to the local Letter from Le Corbusier to Mrs. Meyer conditions of materials and workmanship "We dreamed of making a house for you (stone masonry, concrete roof and floors, house that would be smooth and plain like a glass or other woodwork). The house was chest of beautiful proportions and that would opened to the sun and to the most not be offended by multiple accidents that beautiful landscape, with its back to the create an artificial and illusory violent wind, taking into account the slope, picturesqueness and that sound bad under installing the dwelling on a stilt open to the the light and only add to the tumult around. valley and allowing for outdoor living under We are in opposition to the fashion in this the house." country and abroad of complicated and clashing houses." (...) Excerpt from Le Corbusier, Complete Works, volume 4, 1938-1946 Excerpt from Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Complete Works, volume 1, 1910-1929 Thursday #9 Thursday#10 Discover Discover FONDATION LE CORBUSIER 8-10 square du Docteur Blanche 75016, Paris +33 (0)1 42 88 41 53 Click on this link to unsubscrib.
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