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Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century – Kenneth Frampton

// March 3rd, 2007 // books, reading, review

This is an artist that I admire for a very subtle fact. To have the power to be bold without being obtrusive – its creativity within constraints – true value creation. Well generally architect-visionaries miss it. I think theres a greater  chance that an architect’s creation could be more of an eyesore than a painter’s, because the painter owns that canvas, but the architect has to blend his creation in a generally pleasant & inherently harmonious background. Its like trying to fit in a new piece of the jigsaw that wasnt there when you started. I know its only true for the newer architects, but it is. To imagine something new to an existing skyline is bold, maybe obtrusive. And to add to that, the human tendency to be associated with grandeur, its an achievement for an architect to be such a powerful force in making living in apartments – fashionable. But theres a Indian connection too. & of course theres this church – on the cover – its fresh, its not imposing & its not challenging but its still holds its ground. Somehow, closer to what one wishes religion to be. Its ironical that the structure invokes the true sense rather than it being a precipitation of belief. This is a work of genius.