Le Corbusier : landscapes for the machine age

Le Corbusier's (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965) work is all about landscape, whether latent or manifest. While some of Le Corbusier's buildings act as clear rooms, capturing views of the surrounding territories, others, such as the chapel at Ronchamp or the convent at La Tourette, are determined in their very conception by the landscape from which they have somehow emerged. The lecture explored this constant preoccupation through a triple biographical, thematic and geographical trajectory, leading from the Jura plateaus, where the young architect had discovered nature, to the shores of the Mediterranean, which never ceased to inspire him.