Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was both a great architect and a graphic designer par excellence. Though he built only 62 buildings, he wrote 56 books, including 8 volumes of his renowned OEuvre Complète, reports on himself that he published every five years beginning in 1929. The OEuvre Complète featured...

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Autor: Naegele, D. (Daniel)|||/items/331718ce-f1cb-47a2-8569-29c4c77d9db4
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Illusion
Architectural space
Photography
Le Corbusier
Materias Investigacion::Arquitectura
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spelling Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited ImagesNaegele, D. (Daniel)|||/items/331718ce-f1cb-47a2-8569-29c4c77d9db4IllusionArchitectural spacePhotographyLe CorbusierMaterias Investigacion::ArquitecturaLe Corbusier (1887-1965) was both a great architect and a graphic designer par excellence. Though he built only 62 buildings, he wrote 56 books, including 8 volumes of his renowned OEuvre Complète, reports on himself that he published every five years beginning in 1929. The OEuvre Complète featured photographs of buildings designed by Le Corbusier. Though Le Corbusier, himself, did not take the photographs, he did select them, crop them, edit them, and place them on the books’ pages together with other photographs, text, titles, page numbers, and drawings. Le Corbusier understood that photography, rather than simply picturing an architecture that was, could visualize an architecthure that could be. While one purpose of the photograph was to document recently built works, another purpose of the same photograph was to image that which was not there yet. Le Corbusier employed several strategies that evoked new space in the photographs of his completed architecture. This paper describes three: (a) the truncated pyramid parti; (b) the ‘built-in’ physical focal point; and (c) anthropomorphic representation. It shows how images resulting from the application of each of these three strategies became physically available in Le Corbusier’s next buildings.Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de NavarraDadun. Depósito Académico Digital Universidad de Navarra20162016-11-2320162016-01-0120162016-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10171/42353reponame:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarrainstname:Universidad de NavarraInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/423532026-06-21T12:47:57Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images
title Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images
spellingShingle Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images
Naegele, D. (Daniel)|||/items/331718ce-f1cb-47a2-8569-29c4c77d9db4
Illusion
Architectural space
Photography
Le Corbusier
Materias Investigacion::Arquitectura
title_short Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images
title_full Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images
title_fullStr Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images
title_full_unstemmed Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images
title_sort Seeing What is Not There Yet: Le Corbusier and the Space of Edited Images
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Naegele, D. (Daniel)|||/items/331718ce-f1cb-47a2-8569-29c4c77d9db4
author Naegele, D. (Daniel)|||/items/331718ce-f1cb-47a2-8569-29c4c77d9db4
author_facet Naegele, D. (Daniel)|||/items/331718ce-f1cb-47a2-8569-29c4c77d9db4
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital Universidad de Navarra
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Illusion
Architectural space
Photography
Le Corbusier
Materias Investigacion::Arquitectura
topic Illusion
Architectural space
Photography
Le Corbusier
Materias Investigacion::Arquitectura
description Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was both a great architect and a graphic designer par excellence. Though he built only 62 buildings, he wrote 56 books, including 8 volumes of his renowned OEuvre Complète, reports on himself that he published every five years beginning in 1929. The OEuvre Complète featured photographs of buildings designed by Le Corbusier. Though Le Corbusier, himself, did not take the photographs, he did select them, crop them, edit them, and place them on the books’ pages together with other photographs, text, titles, page numbers, and drawings. Le Corbusier understood that photography, rather than simply picturing an architecture that was, could visualize an architecthure that could be. While one purpose of the photograph was to document recently built works, another purpose of the same photograph was to image that which was not there yet. Le Corbusier employed several strategies that evoked new space in the photographs of his completed architecture. This paper describes three: (a) the truncated pyramid parti; (b) the ‘built-in’ physical focal point; and (c) anthropomorphic representation. It shows how images resulting from the application of each of these three strategies became physically available in Le Corbusier’s next buildings.
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