#38

Le Corbusier's Modernity: Problems and Contradictions

[Hegel - Marx - Heidegger]

PLASTICITY
Iron and glass after the fin de siecle
Giedion, Bauen in Frankreich --> Benjamin, Arcades Project
Corb's early critics/supporters

ENERGY
Corb at Behrens' studio --> electricity in the 20s villas
Leger and the "mechanical object"
Technical objects in the Salons and Expos

CIRCULATION
Development of the "Promenade architecturale"
Drawings of ville contemporaine, of interiors
The automobile in photographs
Matisse and the Villa at Garches

GLOBALIZATION
The global building: Villa Savoye to Pavilion Suisse
Corb's drawings -- "second-order nature"