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 ...

A Le Corbusier structure has hit the market for perhaps the first time in its century of existence. The sunny Miestchaninoff House-Studio stands three stories tall amidst a thicket of trees, the crown ...

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, ...

A retrospective closes this weekend at MoMA on Swiss architect Le Corbusier, best known for his residential projects like Villa Savoye (as well as that chair). But I’d argue that his most genius work ...

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 ...

Seventeen sites across seven countries? Auguste Rodin’s contemplative bronze “The Thinker,” a cast of which sits in one ...

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 is perhaps architecture’s most famous protagonist. As the father of modernism, he inspired legions of budding architects, spearheaded entire movements, and left an indelible legacy on the ...