Marseille: Unité d'habitation or "The company of clouds, the sky, or the stars"

Benton, Tim (2013). Marseille: Unité d'habitation or "The company of clouds, the sky, or the stars". In: Cohen, Jean-Louis ed. Le Corbusier: an Atlas of Modern Landscapes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, pp. 201–211.

Abstract

Le Corbusier's treatment of the roof garden of the Unité d'Habitation reveals his aesthetic of the genered nature of inspiration: the upright man before the horizontal landscape.

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• 40030
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 0-87070-851-1, 978-0-87070-851-0
• Extra Information
• Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 15-Sept. 23, 2013, subsequently travelling to CaixaForum Barcelona, Feb. 6-May 11, 2014, and CaixaForum Madrid, June 11-Oct. 19, 2014.
• Keywords
• Le Corbusier; landscape; nature; Marseilles; Unité d'habitation
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Art History
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• © 2013 The Author
• Depositing User
• Tim Benton