Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese - Couverture rigide

Treib, Marc

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691021376 ISBN 13 : 9780691021379

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The pavilion designed by Le Corbusier for the Philips Company at the 1958 Brussels World's fair broadcasted a landmark multimedia production. The nearly two million visitors who entered the pavilion were treated not to the usual display of consumer products, but to a dazzling demonstration of cutting-edge technology in the service of the arts. This totally automated spectacle consisted of colour, voice, sound, and images sperimposed in a curvilinear space of concrete, orchestrated by Le Corbusier and his colleagues into a 480-second program. Here, Marc Treib looks at both this collaboration and the significance of the Philips project. Achieving for the first time his interest in using electronic media as a synthesis of the arts, Le Corbusier worked with the filmaker Philippe Agostini, the graphic designer and editor Jean Petit, the architect/composer Iannis Xenakis, and the composer Edgar Varese, whose piece "Poeme electronique" was composed for this project. Treib explains the idea and development of the building design - based on the geometry of the hyperbolic paraboloid - and how this ambitious vision materialized through an innovative system of precast concrete panels, engineer

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À propos de l?auteur

Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico and editor of Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review and An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691021376
• ISBN 13: 9780691021379
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
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