![]() ![]() One will find Corbu’s presence on this chart at five different points: as the leader of ‘the Heroic Period’ of the 1920s as a leading thinker of a new (and rather unfortunate) urbanism as the leader of ClAM and mass housing after the war as a harbinger of Post-Modernism with Ronchamp and the symbolic architecture of Chandigarh and, just at the end of his life, with his Brussels and Zurich pavilions, the forerunner of the High-Tech movement. Well, could this be possible - even before the century was over and Frank Gehry given a shot at the title? I think the answer is ‘yes’, as I argue at length and as the accompanying evolutionary tree, or diagram, shows. As the Hayward Gallery put it, polemically, in the title of a 1987 retrospective Le Corbusier was ‘The Architect of the Century’. ![]() ‘The Ethical Polity’ provides a potential vehicle for architectural exploration predicated on the restructuring of public and private.In a recently finished book, Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture, I have found the same pattern in this the Proteus of design. The last section of the article locates architectural work within this feminist perspective: in programme, precedents, and formal expression. The author criticizes Frampton's position from the perspective of feminist philosophy, based on Elshtain and Pitkin, and advocates some reformulation of the traditional hierarchical relationship between the two domains. ![]() ![]() An eminent architectural historian, teacher, and critic, Frampton proposes that the discipline of architecture is in crisis today because of an unprecedented enphasis on ‘the life-bound values of animal laborans,’ and because ‘it is largely divested of culturally valid institutions for its embodiment,’ which institutions, he suggests, find their archetypes in the agora of the ancient polis. Hanna Arendt's discussion of public and private derives more or less intact from Aristotle and forms a principal philosophical basis for mainstream architectural theory exemplified in the writings of Kenneth Frampton. ![]()
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