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.

When the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier inaugurated his residential complex “Cité Radieuse” in Marseille in 1952, it was ...

Cité de Refuge is one of many International Style buildings that have fallen into disrepair. But a faithful recreation isn’t the way forward. Many legendary 20th century architects were wildly ...

Le Corbusier deserves better than to be merely “a whipping boy for modernism’s failures,” said Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times. For decades, critics have blamed the Swiss-born architect ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Le Corbusier, “Nature morte (Still life)” (1920), oil on canvas. (courtesy the Museum of Modern Art) With his heavy modernist hand and love of concrete, you wouldn’t really think of architect Le ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first ...

Chaslin’s research uncovered anti-Semitic sketches attributed to Le Corbusier. These shocking revelations come just as France is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the architect’s death (see A New ...

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 ...

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.