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Colin Bisset
ByColin Bisset
A few years ago, I watched a film called ‘The Man Next Door’. It was about an industrial designer living in a modernist house in Argentina whose neighbour decides to knock through a window which looks directly into the designer’s home. It’s a story of obsession and boundaries but they manage to sort it out in the end. The star, though, is the house itself – the Casa Curutchet, the only building Le Corbusier ever built in South America.
And I’m on the way to see it.
Retiro station, Buenos Aires
La Plata station
La Plata is about an hour’s train ride from Buenos Aires&#;s grand station at Retiro, passing through the sprawl of the city and many rundown areas and then a welcome spell of orange orchards and horse paddocks before reaching La Plata&#;s own little neoclassical station. The journey there with my partner Anthony reminds me of being on Indian trains, given the constant procession of men, women and children selling everything from empanadas to household cleaning products. There are buskers, too, dancing to loud hip-hop music or singing soulful folk songs. The passengers seem to really enjoy it all, buying drinks and pressing coins and banknotes into the busker’s hands as they leave. In Britain, I think,
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The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
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Chosen from the work of architect Le Corbusier that survives in eleven countries on four continents, the sites in seven countries on three continents, implemented over a period of half a century, for the first time in the history of architecture attest to the internationalization of architectural practice across the entire planet.
The seventeen sites together represent an outstanding response to some of the fundamental issues of architecture and society in the 20th century. All were innovative in the way they reflect new concepts, all had a significant influence over wide geographical areas, and together they disseminated ideas of the Modern Movement throughout the world. Despite its diversity, the Modern Movement was a major and essential socio-cultural and historical entity of the 20th century, which has to a large degree remained the basis of the architectural culture of the 21st century. From the s to the s, the Modern Movement, in meeting the challenges of contemporary society, aimed to instigate a unique forum of ideas at a world level, invent a new architectural language, modernize architectural techniques and meet the social and human needs of modern man. Th
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Villa Fallet
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
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La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
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Cité Frugès
Pessac, France
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