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Le Corbusier’s Architectural Heritage Celebrated By UNESCO

Join us for a discussion with international architects and historians to celebrate Le Corbusier’s Architectural Heritage by UNESCO.

A group of Le Corbusier’s sites have been added to the World Heritage list by UNESCO on July 17, 2016. The announcement of the admission of the 17 buildings by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris – better known as Le Corbusier, in seven different countries (France, Belgium, Germany, India, Japan, Argentina, and Switzerland) is an unprecedented recognition of modern architecture  in its full scale and geographic diversity.

The sites represent more than a half-century, of what Le Corbusier described as his “patient research.” Among them, the Capitol complex in Chandigarh, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the house of Dr. Curutchet in La Plata, Argentina, and the Unité d’habitation in Marseille reflect the imaginative solutions that the Modern Movement sought to apply during the 20th century to the challenges of inventing new forms and techniques in order to answer the needs of society.











When: Wed., Dec. 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: Albertine
972 Fifth Ave.
332-228-2238
Price: Free
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Join us for a discussion with international architects and historians to celebrate Le Corbusier’s Architectural Heritage by UNESCO.

A group of Le Corbusier’s sites have been added to the World Heritage list by UNESCO on July 17, 2016. The announcement of the admission of the 17 buildings by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris – better known as Le Corbusier, in seven different countries (France, Belgium, Germany, India, Japan, Argentina, and Switzerland) is an unprecedented recognition of modern architecture  in its full scale and geographic diversity.

The sites represent more than a half-century, of what Le Corbusier described as his “patient research.” Among them, the Capitol complex in Chandigarh, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the house of Dr. Curutchet in La Plata, Argentina, and the Unité d’habitation in Marseille reflect the imaginative solutions that the Modern Movement sought to apply during the 20th century to the challenges of inventing new forms and techniques in order to answer the needs of society.

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