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 ...

Église Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France, 2006 (41 years after his death) Le Corbusier designed a number of structures in Firminy, including a stadium, a housing project and the Maison de la Culture, ...

UNESCO announced Sunday that 17 of Le Corbusier's 20th-century buildings will be added to its World Heritage List. Maison La Roche-Jeanneret in Paris, France, one of the sites designed by Le Corbusier ...

A HOUSE IS NOT A MACHINE to live in," wrote the pioneering modernist Eileen Gray in response to Le Corbusier's oft-quoted line about a house being a machine á habiter. "It is the shell of man—his ...

French architect, professor, and scholar José Oubrerie died on March 10, age 91. Oubrerie was famously known as one of Le Corbusier’s closest protégés who completed Église Saint-Pierre in Firminy, ...

To even the most casual observer, Le Corbusier has become a household name. His lifetime achievements in brutalist architecture, city planning, and pilotis represent his tireless search for modernism, ...

When temperatures get to 40C inside, and French building regulations won’t even allow shutters, these tenants’ listed homes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first ...

Sardinian artist Cristian Chironi’s plans for the coming years include living in some 30 homes in 12 countries, but to call him a nomad would not be entirely accurate. His wandering is part of a ...

A retrospective closes this weekend at MoMA on Swiss architect Le Corbusier, best known for his residential projects like Villa Savoye (as well as that chair). But I’d argue that his most genius work ...

NEW YORK — It’s easy to imagine that “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes,” a vast, dense and beautifully installed new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, began as a kind of parlor game.

Last Friday, at the Art-o-Rama festival in Marseilles, France, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly—the American, Paris-based artists known as Gerard & Kelly—debuted the sixth chapter of their ongoing ...