WilliamJR Curtis e Le Corbusier

Aiac Critic Lesson #2

Roma, 9 novembre 2011 ore 18

100 anni dopo il "Viaggio d'Oriente" (1911-2011) di Le Corbusier, WilliamJR Curtis, autore di numerosi saggi su Le Corbusier e l'architettura moderna in generale, terrà una conferenza dal titolo "The Shadows of Time. Echi di Le Corbusier Voyage d'Orient".

Appuntamento: mercoledì 9 novembre 2011 ore 18 |
Istituto Luigi Sturzo Palazzo Baldassini, via delle Coppelle 35 - Roma

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In 1911 the 24 year old Charles Edouard Jeanneret (the future Le Corbusier) undertook his famous ‘Voyage d'Orient' through the Balkans, to Istanbul and Bursa, the Monasteries of Mount Athos, the Acropolis in Athens, the ruins of Pompeii, the Villa Adriana, and of course Rome. As he went he sketched and photographed what he saw, storing up impressions for later use. In later life the architect referred to the Voyage in almost epic  terms, as if he had returned to the roots of Mediterranean civilization in search of the essentials of architecture itself.  In 1929, the year of that canonical modern work the Villa Savoye at Poissy, the so called ‘pope' of modernism declared that he was accused of being a revolutionary but that the past was ‘his only real master'.

To honour the Centenary of the Voyage d'Orient (1911-2011) William J.R. Curtis (the author of several seminal works on both Le Corbusier and modern architecture in general) will deliver a lecture with the title ‘The Shadows of Time. Echoes of Le Corbusier's 'Voyage d'Orient'. In this he will reflect upon the architect's powers of observation, abstraction and transformation, suggesting ways in which Le Corbusier penetrated to the underlying ideas of past examples prior to integrating them in his own creative universe. The lecture will consider ‘the poetry of ruins', the search for constants in tradition, and the role of metamorphoses in the architect's processes of invention. In turn it will evoke the meaning of shadow and light in Le Corbusier's architecture, and the role of  both memory and the dark recesses of the unconscious in his mythical interpretation of the world. Above all the lecture will be concerned with the ‘presence of the past' in the mind of a great architect.

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