| Titre | Le Corbusier and the USRR [New documentation] | |
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| Auteur | Frederick Starr | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 21, no 2, avril-juin 1980 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier |
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| Page | 209-221 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Frederick Starr, Le Corbusier and the USSR. New documentation.
Between 1928 and 1932, the architect Le Corbusier became deeply interested in, and closely involved with the USSR. In addition to his Tsentrosoiuz building, which was actually constructed in Moscow, he conceived various other major projects on a vast and Utopian scale. These were eventually rejected by Soviet authorities, much to the architect's disgust. Through newly discovered documents it is now possible to trace with some precision the course of Le Corbusier's disenchantment, and to relate it to his early hopes and ideals. Moreover, these documents also reveal that Le Corbusier's turn away from the Soviet experiment was motivated in part by his conviction that no social base of support for modern architecture existed among the Soviet populace at large — e.g., that Stalinist architecture was, in fact, popular. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1980_num_21_2_1388 |
