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When architectural luminary Le Corbusier first visited Cambridge 45 years ago this fall, he came to begin work on a home for the practice and instruction of the visual arts at Harvard. With his characteristic black glasses sitting upon his beaked nose, Corbusier??s arrival marked not only the birth of a significant piece of the modernist architectural canon, but also a significant—and to this point, unparalleled—moment in Harvard’s historically tenuous relationship with contemporary art and architecture...
...Corbusier??s “climbing street” was meant to connect Harvard’s architectural past—the buildings and diagonal paths of the Yard—with what was then thought to be the university’s future, along Prescott Street and beyond. Yet Harvard expanded in other directions, and only retrospectively can the ramp be seen as an idealistic move on the part of the architect, that, like the Carpenter Center itself, has evolved in purpose in the 40 years since its completion...
...opportunity to understand both the historical- and use-value of the building. “Buildings, like other art works, are living things that grow and change,” Garber says. At the Carpenter Center, this has meant adding not only mundane needs not included in Le Corbusier??s original design—such as offices for a sufficient number of faculty members—but also finding ways to accommodate changing artistic practices...
...activities it is meant to contain. I think that really intrigued him,” says Linda Norden, associate curator of contemporary art at the Fogg Musuem and co-organizer of the exhibition with art historian Scott Rothkopf. “He is attracted to an aspect of Le Corbusier??s utopianism…the disparity between some ideal or detail or piece of a program and how that gets worked...
...Staff writer Brian D. Goldstein can be reached at bgoldst@fas.harvard.edu. He is the co-curator of “VAC BOS: The Carpenter Center and Le Corbusier??s Synthesis of the Arts,” an exhibition held Spring 2004 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...