Le Corbusier: Modernist Originality or Copying? - Video
Dr Jan BirkstedWhile describing the genius of his originality and his ‘intuitive flashes of insight’, Le Corbusier systematically obliterated unwanted references from the works of his biographers and set up a carefully vetted archive called the Le Corbusier Foundation.
This lecture considers the discovery of a recently discovered handwritten entry in a ‘lost’ (ie thrown away) Le Corbusier notebook, which indicates that he found (more than) inspiration in the work of a relatively forgotten modernist architect of the late 18th century. What are the implications for the modernist notion of originality versus that old-fashioned Beaux-Arts concept of ‘émulation’? And when did modernist originality begin?
Lecture given on 16 November 2006.
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