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...point. You mention that "the exact positioning of the visors is not duplicated in any previous Le Corbusier work but is vaguely similar to those used in the government buildings of Chandigarh, India. . ." You imply that these are almost completely new, which they are. Actually the visors (more correctly, brise-sollel, invented by Le Corbusier in 1931) cannot be duplicated anyway, if geographical and climatological positions of the buildings differ. Here more than anywhere, form follows function; or better yet, form and function...
...sunlight is dazzling; the air steamy. To circumvent that conjunction of the elements, Niemeyer, like other young graduates, first experimented with balconies and broad windows. Then, in 1936, a new wind swept Brazilian architectural planning. Famed French Architect Le Corbusier came along with his concrete piers and the brise-soleil (i.e., sun break). Niemeyer took to Le Corbusier's modernism as readily as an earlier generation of Brazilians had taken to France's Beaux Arts styles of the Second Empire. Most notably, he helped design a new home for the Ministry of Education and Health. The result, which...
When a British prison commissioner, Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, visited a model U.S. reformatory in 1902, he first became convinced that a bad apple can spoil a barrel. Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to a Kentish village called Borstal. There he began an experiment in straightening out youngsters gone wrong. Its basic idea: "the gospel of work...
...Ainsi se brise un noble coeur. Bonne . nuit, gentil prince, Que le chant de cohortes d'anges te conduise vers le repos...
Flottait par la brise sereine...