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Corbusier at Harvard

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

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 […]

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It can’t happen here

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

There was bad news for Eric Owen Moss on Wednesday. The Los Angeles architect, who in 2001 won a competition to redesign the Queens Museum of Art, found out that he was out of a job. While we may never know exactly why the museum chose to cancel Mr. Moss’ project–already three years in […]

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