Le Corbusier
Photographs by: Richard Pare
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) , born in 1887, was one most influential personalities in 20th Century culture… plying his talents across five continents. Best known for his works in architecture, his career also had considerable influence on interior design and urban planning. His copious polemical and theoretical writings had a profound effect on the course of architecture in the twentieth century and his works continue to resonate in the contemporary fields of endeavor in architecture and design.
This exhibition of the work of Richard Pare represents a portfolio of Le Corbusier’s architecture. A selected group appear in the major retrospective exhibition currently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York… Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes. The exhibition will also be shown at Fodacion La Caixa in Barcelona and Madrid. The work was made possible by a grant from the AVC foundation, Moscow, and was first presented in the exhibition, Le Corbusier: Creation and Secrets, from Painting to Architecture at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Pare, was the founding photography curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He is the author of a number of books on the subject. His photographs of Soviet Modernist architecture were the subject of a MoMA exhibition (2007) and a major book…The Lost Vanguard.
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Richard Pare
Prints from his previous MoMA exhibition, The Lost Vanguard (2007), have recently been on display at the London’s Royal Academy of Art, Martin Gropius Bau, in Berlin, as well as in Madrid and Barcelona.
In addition to numerous exhibitions, his publications include: Court House: A Photographic Document; Photography and Architecture: 1839-1939; and The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932.
More information on Richard Pare can be found on his Artist Page
The presentation included images from Pare’s Le Corbusier portfolio that was on view this past summer at the Museum of Modern Art – New York exhibition… Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes. The portfolio was made possible by a grant from the AVC foundation, Moscow, and was first presented at the Pushkin Museum, Le Corbusier: Creation and Secrets, from Painting to Architecture. It will also be featured at Fodacion La Caixa in Barcelona and Madrid (2014).
Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1929-30, (2012) © Richard Pare
Cohen is a French architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and city planning, since 1994 he has been the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. He also sits on multiple committees of the Paris based Corbusier Foundation.
Q&A: In photographing the work of master architect Le Corbusier,
Richard Pare breaks the mold.
October 29, 2013
By David Hamilton
Architectural photographer Richard Pare has made his mark translating the spirit of spatial experience into the confines of two dimensions. Perhaps best known for his extensive photographs of Soviet modernist architecture, Pare turned his attention to the architecture of Swiss modernist master Le Corbusier at the behest of the Museum of Modern Art for its recent exhibition “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes” and the eponymous publication. Organized by architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibition and Pare’s photographs approach Le Corbusier’s buildings in a new way, presenting them not as objects but as figures in the landscape, a perspective that is bound to alter the way one thinks about his work. To read the interview please follow this link to the ArtsATL web page.
Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1929-30, (2012) © Richard Pare
