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Le Corbusier's 1957 Tapisserie L'étrange oiseau et le taureau, as seen at Le Corbusier and Colour at the Museum für Gestaltung, Pavillon Le Corbusier, Zürich
Architecture | 13.10.2021

Le Corbusier and Color at the Museum für Gestaltung, Pavillon Le Corbusier, Zürich

One could be forgiven for thinking that little would be as pointless as a Le Corbusier colouring-in book. So singularly achromatic is the popular understanding of Le Corbusier, a lack of colour reinforced by the dour, austere, round bespectacled, persona which so universally defines Le Corbusier: what, one asks oneself, could there possibly be to colour in a Le Corbusier colouring-in book? Yet in contrast to the popular Le Corbusier image, Le Corbusier's career was one undertaken in colour. A

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