Le CorbusierSwiss, 1887–1965Radiant City
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
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- Accession number
- 1977.232
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- Art Institute of Chicago
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Meanwhile, in the life of Le Corbusier
The whole life1933
The Athens Charter of CIAM
Le Corbusier's planning concepts formed the basis of the Athens Charter, adopted at the fourth CIAM congress in Athens.
1935
First visit to the United States: skyscrapers “much too small”
Le Corbusier visited the United States for the first time. Asked by reporters about New York's skyscrapers, he replied that they were “much too small”, and wrote a book on the trip, When the Cathedrals Were White: A Journey to the Country of the Timid, about the lack of boldness in American architecture.
1935
Publishes The Radiant City
In a new book Le Corbusier described the Radiant City of standardised apartment blocks, where homes would be allotted by family size rather than income, and industry, housing and commerce kept to districts of their own. The war intervened before any units could be built.
1936
Rio de Janeiro: the Ministry of Education building
On a lecture tour of South America, Le Corbusier worked on the design of the Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro (architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer). At his suggestion its office tower received full glazing and external sun-breakers, one of the first experiments of the kind.
