As a student, "learning that the golden section existed in nature sparked my interest," Marsh recalls. "I discovered Le Corbusier's golden section measurements applied to the human body ...

Le Corbusier argued that furniture should be “extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions”. Their designs were based on the golden mean, a system of proportion based on the male body.

The Unite d’Habitation in Marseille, France was the first large scale project for the famed architect, Le Corbusier. In 1947, Europe was still feeling the effects of the Second World War ...

A map of Jeanneret’s travels and Brillhart’s commentary accompany each section. For those who know Le Corbusier’s work, the detail and commitment these youthful sketches display will not ...

In the preface to his classic Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms ... in one of four essay-like chapters in a new final section of the book, suggests play a role in too many contemporary Corbusier studies.

La Cheminée (the fireplace), 1918 Section two, The Conquest of Paris, shows works completed after the architect settled in Paris, when he adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier and launched avant ...

another of Le Corbusier’s purist villas, built in 1926 for an American journalist. It also develops all the principles that later became his Five Points (the open section of the ground floor has ...

Le Corbusier’s journey from Brazil to France took place during the golden age of liners. In the early 20th century migrants still made up the bulk of ocean travellers, but after the first world ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Le Corbusier’s 1959 Grand Confort LC3 has attracted a new following thanks to its cameo as the thinking place ...