Le Corbusier and Scandinavia
material from Chalmers Library collections
Huvudbibliotekets utställning december 2014 - januari 2015
Publications from left to right
Viking Göransson, “Två föredrag av Le
Corbusier” ur: Byggmästaren, 5 (1933). A report on the lectures Le Corbusier gave in
Stockholm during his visit in January 1933.
Thomas McQuillan, Edouard among the machines: a discussion of
Le Corbusier´s technological agenda. Oslo (2006). The first Scandinavian dissertation on Le Corbusier,
presented at Arkitektur-
og designhøgskolen in Oslo.
Mogens
Krustrup, Port email : Le Corbusier,
Palais de l´assemblée de Chandigarh. Köpenhamn (1991). First extensive
Scandinavian publication of international importance. The Danish specialist on
Le Corbusier´s art, prof. Mogens Krustrup (1921-2011), is the most influential
Nordic Le Corbusier researcher to date.
Thomas
Birket-Smith, Peter Mandal Hansen, Gilbert Hansen (eds), Le Corbusier, maler og arkitekt, painter and architect. Arkitekturtidskrift B, (1995) The most
extensive Le Corbusier exhibition catalogue published in Scandinavia to date.
Produced for the 1995 Le Corbusier exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in
Aalborg, Denmark.
Le Corbusier, “Série Panurge”. Translation into Swedish
of Le Corbusier´s small graphic book from 1962. The Swedish version was
translated by Johan Linton and published in Psykoanalytisk
tid/Skrift, 13 (2005)
Carl Birger Troedsson, Two Standpoints towards modern architecture.
Wright and Le Corbusier (1951). The first probably Swedish academic study
dedicated to Le Corbusier. Both research and publication made at Chalmers.
Johan
Linton, Le Corbusier och Ville radieuse –
Att skriva den moderna staden (2013). The first Swedish dissertation
on Le Corbusier. Presented at the History and Theory of Architecture at
Chalmers.
Le Corbusier, La ville radieuse, Élements d´une doctrine
d´urbanisme pour l ´equipement de la civilization machiniste. (1935). Le
Corbusier’s most extensive publication, in all 348 pages. With it´s
comprehensive discussion of architecture from interior details to global scale
it is regarded as a forerunner to Rem Koolhaas, S, M, L, XL (1995)
Issue of the Gothenburg
cultural review Arche from 2012. It
contains a memorial article on the departed professor Mogens Krustrup
(1921-2011) together with translation into Swedish of his first article on Le
Corbusier from 1973: “The pyramid and the Rotunda”. The photo of Le Corbusier´s
Ronchamp chapel on the cover is by Krustrup.
Issue of the Gothenburg
cultural review Arche from 2013. With
a painting by Le Corbusier on the cover it contains a study of Le Corbusier´s
relation to French architectural tradition, written by the Chalmers scholar
Johan Linton.
Johan Linton, “Le Corbusier´s
Plan for the Urbanization of Stockholm” (2013). The first scientific study of
Le Corbusier´s Stockholm plan from 1933. Published in the anthology Le Corbusier´s secret laboratory: From
painting to architecture, edited by Jean-Louis Cohen and Staffan Ahrenberg.
The publication served as a catalogue for the exhibition with the same name at
the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm 2013.
Le
Corbusier och Stockholm (1987). Publication edited by Karin Winter and
published by the Swedish Museum of Architecture in relation to the centenary of
Le Corbusier´s (1887-1965) birth. One of few Swedish publications associated
with the international interest in Le Corbusier.
Le Corbusier, Vår bostad (1962) The first Swedish
translation of a book by Le Corbusier. The original, La maison des hommes, was published by Le Corbusier in 1945
together with Francois de Pierrefeu. The latters text was excluded in the
Swedish version of the book.
Le
Corbusier, “Louis Soutter, den okände sextioåringen”. Translation into Swedish of
one of Le Corbusier´s rare texts on a contemporary artist. It was also Le
Corbusier´s only text to appear in the French surrealist review Minotaure, in the 9th issue
from 1936. Louis Suotter who suffered badly from psychological problems, was Le
Corbusier´s cousin. The Swedish version was translated by Johan Linton and
published in Psykoanalytisk Tid/skrift, 11-12
(2005)
Johan
Linton, Om arkitekturens matematik – en
studie av Le Corbusiers Modulor (1996). Diploma work for a Master´s
degree in Engineering Phyiscs, presented at Chalmers by the Swedish Le
Corbusier researcher Johan Linton. Linton´s first book on Le Corbusier also contains
a translation into Swedish of the French Swiss architect´s collaboration with
the French mathematician Francis Le Lionnais: “L´architecture et l´esprit mathématique”
(Arkitekturen och den matematiska andan) from 1948
Johan
Linton, Le Corbusiers maskin-industriella
spår i ett arkitekturtänkande (1999) Licentiate thesis presented at the
Theory and History of Architecture at Chalmers. The first academic work on Le
Corbusier on post graduate level produced at an architectural school in Sweden.
Utställning
Utställning
December 2014 – Januari 2015
I samarbete med Johan LintonErik Lallerstedt, Le Corbusier och Ivar Tengbom 1933 på Operakällaren i Stockholm
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