The lovely team of Brutalists at Greyscape noticed that I have a thing for Le Corbusier and asked for my […]
Tag Archive for ‘Pessac’
Turning a deaf ear
I was at a talk recently where an architect took us through the idea of baugruppen*. This is the German […]
Sunshine and playing favourites
Recently my friend, writer Victoria Blake, recommended my blog for a Sunshine Blogger Award. I was very touched, especially as […]
The year of Le Corbusier
I’m aware that this site is beginning to look like one dedicated only to Le Corbusier but you must allow […]
Loving Le Corbusier, among friends
I just had to share this photo. It shows a jokily mocked-up hard copy of my novel Loving Le Corbusier […]
In the shadow of Le Corbusier
It’s easy to forget that most architects head a team. In the case of Le Corbusier, much of his work […]
A postscript to Pessac
Following my recent piece on Le Corbusier’s housing development at Pessac, Sugarcubes in Bordeaux. I was delighted to receive an […]
Sugar cubes in Bordeaux
When I was a student I bought a little book called “Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier’s Pessac revisited” by Philippe Boudon. […]