WUN 001       Collection particulière       Le Corbusier       since 1931

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Text: Rüegg, A. (2017). Living with Objects: learning from objects:
Le Corbusier’s collection particulière. In Le Corbusier, history and tradition. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 71.

Le Corbusier's mania for collecting corresponded perfectly with his ability to intuitively recognise changing trends and apply them to a personal context. However, this obsessive acquisitiveness also reflected the complex, sometimes contradictory nature of his research and explorations. The essential aspect of his accumulated objects was their image-based representation of different worlds, and the relation of these worlds to the concept of a "new" art and architecture.

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