An 8 day pilgrimage to the most iconic works of pioneering Modernist architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in France. From Paris to Lyon, and from Marseille along the the Côte d’Azur, we will be traversing the length of the country by road and rail, exploring the grandeur, utopia and controversy of Le Corbusier’s sublime vision Next Departures… Read More
Rovaniemi, FInland Alvar Aalto (1975) The town of Rovaniemi was destroyed during the retreat of German troops from Lapland in October 1944. Although the retreating force is known to have wiped out electrical pylons, train tracks and other infrastructure in Lapland to deny its use to enemy forces, it appears that the razing of Rovaniemi… Read More
London, UK Berthold Lubetkin with Ove Arup (1934) Berthold Lubetkin’s seminal Penguin Pool at the London Zoo was an early demonstration of Modernism as a new direction for architecture, and a triumphal showcase of the creative and expressive possibilities of concrete. The pool was built in 1934 by Lubetkin and his firm Tecton, in collaboration… Read More
Finsbury, London, UK Berthold Lubetkin (1938) In the 1930s the Borough of Finsbury commissioned Berthold Lubetkin’s firm Tecton to deliver a health centre of radical design. The H-shaped building resembled no other hospital that had ever been built before, and encapsulated the technical and aesthetic elements of Modernism. It was a luminous, progressive building, designed… Read More
Aluminium of Greece (AL) was launched in 1960 as a joint venture between the government of Greece and an industrial conglomerate led by the historic French firm Pechiney, a world leader in aluminium manufacturing. As a result, the first aluminium production facility in the country opened on the northern coast of the Corinthian Gulf in… Read More
Agios Dimitrios, (often referred to with its pre-1928 name, Brahami) is one of the most densely populated suburbs of Athens – a density that’s comparable to that of Cairo, or Seoul. The typical expedience and maladministration that characterised post-war Greece has left its indelible mark in the suburb’s architecture: its arbitrarily arranged streets define pocket… Read More
