When we think of Le Corbusier, we tend to think of him in black and white. The monolithic Radiant City, the clean lines of Villa Savoye, even the photographs of Corb himself, lecturing students ...

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.

Le Corbusier’s philosophy – and the branch of modernism that he fathered – encompassed the integration of light and air as a key tenet. The villa is perched on a hill with a southern orientation that ...

In his buildings, the Swiss architect Le Corbusier used color to define and articulate space. Now, a new tile line by the Italian manufacturer Gigacer is making it easier for designers–and design fans ...

Just a couple dozen grainy photographs and a few sketchy plans are all that remain of Le Corbusier’s revolutionary Pavilion of the New Spirit, a model apartment the early Modernist architect made in ...

What do an Ikea showroom floor, urban housing projects and Kanye West have in common? They've all been inspired, at least to some degree, by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier. Though his ...

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 ...

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, ...

Photographer Roberto Conte uncovers the hidden gems of Chandigarh’s concrete infrastructure in his new series exploring the Le Corbusier-designed Indian city. The images capture the modernist ...

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, ...

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 ...

Iraqi security guards walk past the back side of the Le Corbusier-designed gymnasium of Baghad Designed by the famed architect Le Corbusier, built under Saddam Hussein then forgotten: such was the ...