Amédée Ozenfant

Leonora Carrington is a Mexican painter and writer of English birth. She is the last surviving member of the inner circle of Surrealists from pre-war Paris. Leonora was born in 1917 to Harold Carrington, an English textiles magnate and his Irish-born wife, Maurie Carrington. Leonora was a debutante who spent most her childhood on her family estate in Lancashire, England. Although Carrington was a debutante, she was a rebellious child being expelled from two convent schools for bad behavior even though she was educated by governesses, tutors, and nuns. Warrington was drawn to artistic expression over anything so when she continued rebel, her parents sent her to study art in Italy. Inspired by the Italian Renaissance paintings, Leonora returned…

the director of the course Charles L’Eplattenier interested Le Corbusier in Architecture. - After designing his first house at the age of 20 in 1907, he went to many locations in many countries from central Europe to the Mediterranean. Some of these would be Italy, Vienne, Munich, and Paris. He travelled and got into apprenticeships with many and various architects, but mainly with structural rationalist i.e. Auguste Perret, who was a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction. He was then…

“An urbanist who lived in a fishing cottage, an iconoclast who invented the highrise, an architect who wanted to be a painter”. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965, commonly known as Le Corbusier), was a well known modern artist and architect from Switzerland, later situated in France. His career years were later in the modernism period, yet he is called ‘the grandfather’ of modern architecture. In this essay, I will be discussing how Le Corbusier’s work in painting and in architecture, was…

House is a black elongated rectilinear tube of space that resembles a giant box kite landing on the dunes. The Medhurst House, floating above the vineyard, is a pure Platonic glazed box recalling the first seemingly airborne building, Mies van der Rohe 's Farnsworth House (1946-51). Denton Corker Marshall 's interest in early 20th century art and architectural theory, specifically Amedee Ozenfant 's and Le Corbusier 's formulation of Purism, in which objects were represented as basic…

Enrique Metinides photography of tragedy - where are we going? - lead to technology, web, faster downloads 2. - De Stijl - “The Style” in Dutch aka neoplasticism - refers to body of work from 1917-1931 founded in the Netherlands advocates pure abstraction and universality by reducing to the essentials of form and color - simplify visuals used primary colors with black and white emphasized vertical and horizontal lines that do not intersect so each element is independently influenced by…