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Encountering Le Corbusier: A dialogue with modern architecture’s divisive figure
Bandung's Selasar Sunaryo Art Space and Jakarta's Kopi Manyar hosts a tribute introductory exhibition to Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier through recreated architectural models of his works.
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Architectural Polychromy: A set of architectural models for 'Unité d’Habitation' (1952) in Marseille, France, placed in front of a mural of the Modulor and a rough sketch of a car designed by Le Corbusier, Voiture Minimum, for a competition in 1934 by Société des Ingénieurs de l’Automobile. (JP/Anindito Ariwandono) (JP/Anindito Ariwandono)
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andung's Selasar Sunaryo Art Space and Jakarta's Kopi Manyar host a tribute introductory exhibition to Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier through architectural models of his works.
Very few people in the history of architecture are as polarizing as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, also known as Le Corbusier. A complex figure with a daunting reputation, fraught with influences that transcended time and his notoriety for his urban vision and political views, Le Corbusier seems so far away yet still very close.
His imprint on an epochal style that has shaped modernist architecture gives him a sense of mosaic certainty that some people have likened to a hovering deity after Italian renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. Escaping from Le Corbusier’s influences is seemingly impossible.
Under the dread of logistical issues combined with the horrors of a narrow time frame for a traveling exhibition, Encountering Le Corbusier delivered an extensive yet constrained introduction to the architect's works, albeit ending abruptly.
The event was initiated by education platform Nenun Ruang in collaboration with Singaporean architecture firm RT+Q and hosted by Selasar Sunaryo Art Space (SSAS) and Kopi Manyar.
On a rocking boat
After being held by customs for two weeks when the architectural models arrived in Indonesia, the organizers were eventually faced with more than a handful of damaged ones and a shortened timeline as they were forced to delay the exhibition accordingly.
