A few years ago, I watched a film called ‘The Man Next Door’. It was about an industrial designer living […]
Tag Archive for ‘Le Corbusier’
Ponderings from Patagonia and beyond
I haven’t blogged for a while because I was away, trying to soften the blow of turning sixty. It worked, […]
Who teaches us about architecture?
The other day I visited an exhibition in the lobby of one of Sydney’s finest office towers, Australia Square. Completed […]
How many Le Corbusier buildings is enough?
The lovely team of Brutalists at Greyscape noticed that I have a thing for Le Corbusier and asked for my […]
The curse of open plan
Sometime in the last two decades it appears we became a nation of claustrophobes. Or that’s what it looks like […]
Formidable Firminy
New towns don’t exactly have a great image and are often used as symbols of soullessness, like Cumbernauld in the […]
The wheels on the roof go round and round
These days so much architecture is about appearance, making a big statement and attracting the eye (and the Instagram account). […]
Learning from La Tourette
The sign at the entrance warns me that this is an espace de silence, a place of silence. I’m thinking […]
A Meanjin moment
I’m itching to write about my recent visit to Le Corbusier’s Couvent de la Tourette but in the meantime, click […]
Waste not, want not
Many a mickle makes a muckle is an old Scottish saying which means that a lot of little things can […]
