Giuliana Altea, Antonella Camarda (eds.). Le Corbusier. Lessons in Modernism

Veiling Architecture Privacy in Loos and Le Corbusier

Cognition Meets Le Corbusier-Cognitive Principles of Architectural Design

Research on human spatial memory and navigational ability has recently shown the strong influence of reference systems in spatial memory on the ways spatial information is accessed in navigation and other spatially oriented tasks. One of the main findings can be characterized as a large cognitive cost, both in terms of speed and accuracy that occurs whenever the reference system used to encode ...

LE CORBUSIER ' S PRINCIPLES OF CITY PLANNING AND THElR APPLICATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

veiling architecture privacy in loos and le corbusier

the following attempts to discuss the different approaches to privacy adopted by adolf loos and le corbusier, as two of the most influential pioneers of modern architecture. it will be argued that both architects were influenced by the developing technologies of their time, yet they reacted differently to the increasing influence of film and photography on art, architecture and everyday life. t...

The future of public health: the lessons of modernism.

The paper by Hanlon et al. sends a signal to our profession about the need to rethink the nature of our discipline and our training in the face of global, meteorological, cultural and economic developments. I agree with the general tenor of the argument and suggest that we already have to hand the conceptual apparatus to do this. The idea of modernism is critical. Two concepts associated with m...