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Corbusier

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Corbusier (French) [kɔrbyzje]
n
(Biographies) Le. See Le Corbusier


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Each morning before going to his atelier, Le Corbusier would paint.
When an early critic of Le Corbusier called him boring, he dismissively denounced the doctrine of "life with its many facets and unending variety; life, two-faced or four-faced,
Replete with an origami Dean of Deans (an archetype of all Harvard deans, resembling a Harry Potter Dementor), a shape-shifting building representing numerous changes to Corbusier's blueprints, and puppets of curators, Le Corbusier and Huyghe revisit modernism as a fantasy set amid minimalist, Beckettian landscapes and anthropomorphic flora, grafting past romanticized dreams of aesthetic revolution onto the images of present-day negotiations with institutions.
 
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