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"I insist absolutely that certain parts of the architecture should be entirely free of paintings."

--Le Corbusier

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Modernism's Monster
By Philip Kennicott

Le Corbusier -- the Swiss modernist who, along with Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright, laid down the commandments of 20th-century architecture -- might have known better.

After all, he became so enraged by how the art was hung in the house he built for the wealthy collector Raoul La Roche that he broke with his best friend at the time, the painter Amédée Ozenfant, who had perpetrated the unauthorized hanging: "I insist absolutely that certain parts of the architecture should be entirely free of paintings," he wrote. >>> Read More

 

 

 

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