Corbusier #8
Paris, France
2013
Walther Gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus School, the most influential modernist art school of the 20th century. In 1913 he published an article
The Development of Industrial Buildings which included a number of photographs of columnar concrete American grain elevators. These grain elevator photos greatly influenced Le Corbusier. Their simple shapes and large unadorned expanses of concrete became a dominant characteristic of Corbusier’s designs. Having photographed grain elevators extensively, to a large degree because of my attraction to the light as it plays across their simple geometries, it’s no surprise I also found Corbusier’s work equally interesting.]]>
Corbusier #8
Paris, France
2013
This Corbusier is the one that my student’s hope they never see on a test.
It took me a minute to figure (or should I say letter) out what you were referring to Randy.
“F” is not only for France. For some reason that was the first thing I saw when I looked at the photo.