Mapping the stylistic affiliations of Le Corbusier's work

The paper deals with Le Corbusier's connection to the term "style". A classification of his work in specific architectural styles is discussed, followed by a description of the procedure through which the style of the man Le Corbusier was constructed; in an attempt to search meaning in his continual stylistic shifts and the rationale that kept...

Building Beauty: Kantian aesthetics in a time of dark ecology

In the aftermath of a normalized Foucaultian world with an all encompassing web of biopower, one remaining hope is to cultivate nimbleness. Nimbleness is an embodied aesthetic sensitivity to the material presence. Cultivating nimbleness is a particular style of cultivation; it is to willfully gather together one’s self in the wake of a formative...

Unknown history: Le Corbusier in front of the 'Academism' of Jan de Ranitz in the preparations for the new United Nations Headquarters at New York (1946)