Le Corbusier

'Like finding lost Rembrandts'

2013-03-02 00:00:00

Peter Mullin cracks open the door of a 1935 Voisin Type C25 Aerodyne at the back of the auto museum bearing his name. He points out the intricate details of a vibrant Art Deco interior, restored to its original luster. A small ashtray hangs on the inside...

Balthazar Korab dies at 86; architect-photographer with wide-ranging eye

2013-02-01 05:00:00

Balthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal...

Oscar Niemeyer dies at 104; modernist Brazilian architect

2012-12-05 20:50:00

Oscar Niemeyer, the architect whose soaring buildings form the heart of Brasilia, the instant modernist capital built in the wilds of Brazil in the late 1950s, has died. He was 104. Niemeyer, who had outlived his contemporaries to become the world's...

Gae Aulenti dies at 84; architect designed Paris' Musee d'Orsay

2012-11-05 00:00:00

Gae Aulenti, an Italian architect who attained international prominence turning old buildings into modern museums, including Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, died Wednesday at her home in Milan. She was 84. Her family told...

Greta Magnusson Grossman retrospective to open in Pasadena

2012-10-24 08:30:00

At a Van Nuys auction house earlier this month, bidding on a seemingly simple 1940s aluminum and brass floor lamp by Greta Grossman rose to $10,000, then with the crowd buzzing, climbed past $15,000. Then $20,000. And $25,000. By the time the gavel fell...

A hilltop Encino house where circular logic works

2012-10-05 10:51:00

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. And if that glass house has two 12-sided, almost circular, mostly door-less structures with precious few straight interior walls? Then hanging art, relying on conventional right-angled furniture...

House Proud

2012-05-03 16:39:06

Capri, Italy travel information

2012-02-19 00:00:00

THE BEST WAY From LAX, connecting service (change of planes) to Naples is offered on Lufthansa and British. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $466, excluding taxes and fees. You then take the hydrofoil or ferry to Capri; prices start about $15, one...

Sori Yanagi dies at 96; pioneer of Japanese industrial design

2011-12-27 00:00:00

Sori Yanagi, whose designs for stools and kitchen pots brought the simplicity and purity of Japanese decor into the everyday, has died. He was 96. The pioneer of Japan's industrial design died Sunday of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital, Koichi Fujita of...

Park La Brea, 70-year-old design still feels the love (and hate)

2012-02-24 16:34:04

Iconic LC1 sling chair remade for outdoors

2012-03-08 16:36:16

At Wright design auction, the bright spot is lighting

2011-10-07 21:34:07

Model of the Villa Savoye, Poissy. 1928-31

2013-03-07 10:53:00

The "Mod Squad" t-shirt at the Chicago Architecture Foundation shop, featuring Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Eileen Gray, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.

2012-09-05 15:42:00

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer's signature style features futuristic round and curving designs. His formative experience came in 1934 when he joined a team of Brazilian architects collaborating with Swiss architect Le Corbusier on a new Ministry of Education and Health in Rio de Janeiro.

2007-12-18 13:33:00