This ambitious exhibition, curated by Jean- Louis Cohen and Barry Bergdoll, was the first major retrospective at MoMA to focus on the creative work of Le Corbusier. Organized biographically according to geographic locale, it drew upon a range of media to probe the integral relationship between Le Corbusier’s travels and his artistic and architectural production in scales that range from furniture designs to buildings and urban proposals. In addition to original sketches, architectural drawings, and models, the installation included objects he collected (glassware, shells, bone fragments), numerous paintings, excerpts from films made by Le Corbusier and others, selected images from his travel notebooks (reproduced digitally and projected in series according to locale), large-scale polemical drawings made during his 1935 lecture tour of the United States, photographs of selected examples of his buildings commissioned from Richard Pare, and full-scale replicas of rooms from diverse periods of Le Corbusier’s practice.
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