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Architecture
McQuade, Walter | February 16, 1963 issue

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The article focuses on the architecture of the Museum of Modern Art at the New York City, designed and constructed by the famous Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The exhibition of photographs of his work at the museum is made up of scores of color transparencies of buildings, enlarged and mounted on the fronts of individually lighted boxes, which are then arranged in an artful way across the first floor rear of the museum. Almost like the Cubist painters, Corbusier seemed to seize a perception and present it intensely, effectively, out of real context. It was an isolated moment in architectural history. He went so far, as nearly, to negate the reality of perspective, quite a feat in three dimensions.

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ART museum architecture; LE Corbusier, 1887-1965; ARTISTS & architects; NEW York (State) -- Antiquities; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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