Corbusier at Harvard
The Carpenter Center at Harvard University. Le Corbusier’s only building in North America and one of the last to be completed in his lifetime. A collection of forms that read like a summation of the architect’s work–reinforced concrete, pilotis elevating a large mass off the ground, the ondulatoires from La Tourette, the brises soleils from the Marseille unite d’habitation, and the original Five Points from the 1920s articulated in a new way. Imagine the meeting of the minds to create the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair–Le Corbusier, who was employing Iannis Xenakis at the time, and Edgard Varese, who composed his Poeme Electronique for the installation.
