Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau

Three Essential Joys and l'Unités d'Habitation (top); the Radioconcentric City of Exchanges (middle); and the Three Human Establishments (bottom)

A page from Le Corbusier's sketchbook, with major projects under way in 1963

The Three Human Establishments

Le Corbusier's first constructions at La Chaux-de-Fonds

Unité d'Habitation, Marseille

Plan Voisin for Paris

The Open Hand Monument and "La Fosse de la Considération" at Chandigarh

The Museum of the Twentieth Century for Paris

Le Corbusier's concept of the Three Human Establishments

Satellite cities: a waste and circulation hell

Prototype for the Museum of the Twentieth Century: the Museum of Unlimited Growth based on the square spiral

League of Nations, Competition for Geneva

These roads follow the old roads of history, all the way to China

The plan of Le Corbusier's cabanon

Pocket-sized cards used by Le Corbusier as an aid to improvisation during his 1935 lectures in America

Le Corbusier proposed many plans for Paris from 1922 to his death in 1965

The Linear Industrial City: geographical and topological solutions to organize Europe

Le Corbusier's last project for Paris: the Museum of the Twentieth Century for La Défense or, preferably, the heart of Paris

L'Esprit Nouveau Pavilion

Chandigarh: first project

The Linear Industrial City: fragment of the Linear Industrial City

Paris with one of Le Corbusier's visionary proposals to rebuild the Right Bank

League of Nations competition, details of fenestration

Model of the Orsay Cultural Center, Paris, in its context, with the Musée du Louvre and the Tuileries in the foreground

The Museum of the Twentieth Century planned for Nanterre, adjacent to La Défense district

Worker's House, internal perspective of double-height living room

A little house in Vaucresson for George Besnus

Werkbund exhibition buildings, Stuttgart

Morinosuke Kawasaki House, Tokyo, plan and section with details of the living room furniture and corner fireplace

Entry for the Palais des Soviets competition, plan of the first floor and model

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Modern Gallery, plan of the ground floor showing the addition of the Annex

The “sputnik," Centre George Pompidou

Gobierno Civil, view of the front façade

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Dr. H. Bavinck School, view of the street

Royal Festival Hall, Festival of Britain, diagrammatic perspectives

Guggenheim Museum, glass roof of the cupola

Pavilion for the Swiss National Exhibition of Lausanne

Bijenkorf Department Store, view from the terrace

Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, section through the cantilevered curtain wall

Guggenheim Museum under construction

Guggenheim Museum, exterior view

Italian Industry Pavilion, Expo ’70, detail of revetment

Highpoint One, view of the typical living room with sliding-folding windows fully open

De La Warr Pavilion, view from below of the main spiral stairway and close-up of the handrail of the southern stairwell

Reliance Controls

Centre Pompidou, covered square

Kastrup Airport Terminal, the undulating ceiling of the central atrium seen from the spiral staircase

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Archeseum, section on the minor axis (to the right of the skylight)

Freibad Allenmoos, Zurich, elevations of the facilities

Tokyo Golf Club, view of the model

Guggenheim Museum, the Modern Gallery, perspective drawing

Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, plan of the ground floor

Guggenheim Museum, sketch of the spring’s exterior walls with openings for the skylights

Guggenheim Museum, a grid used to draw the loops of the spiral in plan

Gibian Villa, ground- and first-floor plans

Freibad Allenmoos, view from the men’s changing rooms onto the park, with the restaurant in the background

Plywood Model Demonstration House, ground- and first-floor plans and axonometric

Vacation house, Catalina Island, floor plans and section

Kastrup Airport Terminal, view from the landing strip and a close-up inside the control tower

Centre Pompidou, facade on rue du Renard

Le Corbusier drawing for architecture students and faculty at Columbia University

House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, detail of the folding window system in the living room

Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, night view of the pavilion illuminated from within

Hochschule für Gestaltung, view of the coffee bar at the entry level

Centre Pompidou, the “jelly-mold scheme” of the facade on the rue du Renard

Mundaneum, Musée Mondial, overview sketches

S. C. Johnson & Son Administration Building, interior

Social Security Administration Building, view of interior courtyard

Maravillas School Gymnasium, Madrid, detail drawing of the metal fence surrounding the playing field on the roof

Hoffmann–La Roche pharmaceutical warehouse, general view of interior

Canneel House, architect’s office as extension of living area; a flexible mobile partition wall separates the two spaces

Fifth Avenue near the future site of the Guggenheim Museum

Model built after winning the competition for Plateau Beaubourg

Guggenheim Museum, the Modern Gallery, perspective

Daily Express Building, Manchester, cross section

Sanatorium Machnáč, view of the roof terrace

Tokyo Golf Club, Asaka, elevations and first floor plan

House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, south, east, and west elevations

Centre Pompidou, library

Centre de Vacances, site model

House of the Future, axonometric

Expansion of the headquarters of the Berliner Tagesblatt

Gobierno Civil, Tarragona, photo and detail of stairway handrail

Jespersen Office Building, the spiral staircase connecting the ground floor with the first floor

Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, view of the central top-lit packing hall

Guggenheim Museum, section drawing

Maison de Verre, Paris, axonometric of the main stairway in the double-height salon

Badovici pied-à-terre on rue Chateaubriand, Paris, plan and sectional detail of the opening in the ceiling

Swiss Pavilion at the VI Triennale di Milano, view of the entrance

Gorilla House, London Zoo, view of the outdoor cage with a rotating wall that may be closed in winter

CLESA Dairy Center, Madrid, section

Centre Pompidou, view from the top of the Church of Saint-Merri

Villa Savoye, Poissy

The architectural revolution is complete . . .

Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete, axonometric

Stelling Building, street front and detail of the entrance

Competition design for the League of Nations Building in Geneva

Canneel House, main stairway lit by glass blocks

Sanatorium Machnáč, view of balconies on the bedroom wing

Sainsbury Warehouse, cross section and view from below showing window-cleaning track

Design for a wall clock

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, molds used to cast concrete

District Workshop for UNESCO, prospectus

Lenglet House, plans of the two levels, section, and view of the south side

Tokyo Golf Club, Asaka, views of the lounge area on the first floor, including the women’s living room, and a partial view of the bar on the ground floor

Red Flag Textile factory, Leningrad, view of the model

The Archeseum, section corresponding to the minor axis

Freibad Allenmoos, views of the entrance and the diving pool

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum seen from Fifth Avenue

Maravillas School Gymnasium, Madrid, detail drawing of the steel box section employed for the main truss and the supporting columns

Competition Design for the Chicago Tribune Building

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, construction of the structure of the glass cupola and the final shape of the hairpins

Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, cross section indicating the production process

Maison de Verre, Paris, detailed drawing of the stairway linking the doctor’s consulting room to his study above

Kastrup Airport terminal, view of the interior of the new terminal

Kastrup Airport Terminal, view of the double-height atrium of the departure hall

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Archeseum, plan drawings of the second floor

Guggenheim Museum, drawing of the structure of the glass roof of the cupola

Centre Pompidou, L’outil informatif

Bijenkorf Department Store, view of the central atrium at the ground floor

De La Warr Pavilion, partial view of the glazed cantilevered staircase on the northern face overlooking the entrance

Boathouse, Djurgården, Stockholm, plan

Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, view of the pavilion under construction

Guggenheim Museum, elevation study

Aarhus City Hall, southern facade

Hilversum Town Hall, sections through the central courtyard

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, plan of the second floor

Einstein Tower, Potsdam, longitudinal section and plans

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, building the floor of the lobby

Theater-restaurant in the Bellevue complex

Siedlung Neubühl, Zurich, details of fenestration for type B

Lovell Health House, view from the southeast

Studio Piano; view of the exterior

Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao, Dome over Manhattan

Guggenheim Museum, sketch for the skylights at the exterior edge of the spring’s volutes

Open-Air School, Amsterdam, site plan, transverse section, and ground/typical floor plan

Highpoint One, view from the garden

Kastrup Airport Terminal, partial view of the entrance from the runway soon after the terminal's completion

Centre Pompidou, facade on rue du Renard

Aarhus City Hall, spiral stairway connecting the ground and first floors in the main building

Fun Palace, interior perspective

Hilversum Town Hall, view from the southeast

Highpoint One, London, plans of the two apartment types and a longitudinal section of the building

House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, axonometric

Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, model

Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, workshop block plan and lecture hall

De Koninck House, the corner window with the beginning of the stair to the architect’s office and master bedroom/bathroom suite

De La Warr Pavilion, view of the south façade facing the sea

Three-story ballroom in the Grand Hôtel

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, exterior

Universum Cinema, exterior

Highpoint One, London, detailed drawings of the bathrooms and steel fenestration (top) and of the steel-framed wardrobe fittings and steel flashing (bottom)

Unité d'Habitation, exterior, end with exposed stairway

Partial view of the Centre Pompidou

Open-Air School, view of the two wings and the central stair tower with outriding gymnasium

Philip Johnson while serving on the competition jury for Plateau Beaubourg

Guggenheim Museum, various solutions explored for the ramp of the museum, interpretive drawing

Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, the telescopic balcony of the crow's nest

Oerlikon Velodrome, details

Daily Express Building, view of the flush curtain walling with cornice and window-cleaning track above

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Model built after winning the competition for Plateau Beaubourg

Villapark Meer en Bosch semi-detached houses, perspective, foundation plan, and a close-up of one of the wings

Guggenheim Museum, the Modern Gallery, main floor; the Ocular Chamber at the right, plan drawing

Guggenheim Museum, sketch for the skylights at the exterior edge of the spring’s volutes

Golf clubhouse at Beauvallon, axonometric

Highpoint One, London, axonometrics

Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium, Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland, view and plan sketches

Fabritius School, general view of the complex plus section and elevations

Guggenheim Museum, interpretive drawing

Exterior, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Archeseum, west elevation

Zip-Up House

Maison de Verre, Paris, axonometric of the glass door to the garden and the security gate

Guggenheim Museum, elevation

Social Security Administration Building, interior of the managers’ offices

Berliner Tageblatt Building, elevation toward Schützenstrasse

De Koninck House, plans of the main living level, the bedroom suite, and the architect’s office

Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, overall plan of the house and landscape with indication of sandstorm winds

Open-Air School, view of the corner terraces and the gymnasium

Freibad Allenmoos, aerial view of the pool with the diving basin to the left

Kikusaburô Fukui Villa, Atami, plan and section of the Japanese bath

Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, ground- and first-floor plans of the second competition design

Salvisberg House, Zurich, garden front plus axonometric of reinforced concrete structure

Daily Express Building, view of the exterior

Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, axonometric of the double-height atrium from the competition design

Guggenheim Museum, aerial view of the from above Central Park

Malmö Eastern Cemetery, perspective showing ceremonial space

De La Warr Pavilion, the top of the spiral stairwell and its suspended light fitting, and the southern façade

Raymond House, Reinanzaka, elevation, plan and sections

Guggenheim Museum, interpretive drawing

Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, longitudinal and transverse sections of competition project, along with ground- and first-floor plans

Penguin Pool, London Zoo, plan

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Archeseum, plan drawings of the ground floor

Centre Pompidou, view from the Fontaine Stravinsky

Canneel House, Auderghem, plans of ground and first floors

Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, view of the central top-lit packing hall

Lovell Health House, Los Angeles, steel frame under construction

SAS Royal Hotel and Air Terminal, cross section and view of the main spiral staircase connecting the basement with the atrium and the second floor

Einstein Tower, Potsdam

Competition design for the Jednota Building, Prague

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, section drawing, with separate details showing the ramp and the exterior wall in section

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, welding the bars for the ramp’s reinforced concrete

Badovici pied-à-terre, main space

Texaco gas station, Copenhagen, bird's eye view

Pavilion for the city of Ulm

Agios Dimitrios School, first floor plan and views of the exterior

Municipal Sports Pavilion, Pontevedra, plan and section of roof structure

Centre Pompidou, museum space

Gobierno Civil, Tarragona, front, back, and side elevations and ground-floor plan

Siedlung Neubühl, Zurich, southeast elevation and plans for type A

Max Bill studio-house, Zurich, north elevation and lower ground-floor plan

Emerson Junior High School, Westwood, California, interior perspective

Manola Court

CENIM Research Center

Gooiland Hotel and Theater, street façade

Apartment building on the avenue de Versailles, Paris, standard floor plan and view of the main façade

Place Georges Pompidou

Villa Vančura, Prague, perspectives of the façade and bird’s-eye view

Housing Block. Hook of Holland. Exterior detail

Wright's Dana House under construction

Building the Guggenheim Museum’s drum

Dulles International Airport

Tokyo Golf Club, Asaka, plans and section of the reinforced-concrete spiral stair serving the external balconies

Schocken Department Store, Stuttgart, typical floor plan and detail drawings of the corner circular stairway

Malmö Eastern Cemetery, Chapels of Saints Gertrude and Knut, plus front elevation of the Saint Gertrud chapel

Design for vacation homes in Alcúdia, Majorca, street elevation, ground-floor plan, and perspective sketch

Empire Pool, view of the concrete counterweights at the ends of the trusses

Centre Pompidou, partial view of the external mobile staircase

CUBEX kitchen

Guggenheim Museum, the Modern Gallery, main floor, plan drawing

Zonnestraal Sanatorium, aerial view

Freibad Allenmoos, aerial view

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, construction of the structure of the glass cupola and the final shape of the hairpins

Malmö City Theater, cross-sections and view of the auditorium

Freibad Allenmoos, view of the women's changing area

Kastrup Airport Terminal, view of atrium shortly after the terminal's completion

Centre Pompidou, facade toward the Fontaine Stravinsky and IRCAM

Pioneer Health Centre, lounge and library with sliding-folding window-wall opening to the garden

Siedlung Neubühl, site plan showing relation to the city of Zurich

Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, view of ferro-concrete cupola with glass lenses supported by a wide-span steel frame

Brazilian Ministry of Education and Public Health building (MESP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Archeseum, section on the main axis (to the right of the ramp)

Creek Vean

Saint Peter’s Church

Penguin Pool, London Zoo, detail view of the interlocking spiral ramps

Hochschule für Gestaltung, interior view of a student dormitory unit

Villa Sevensteyn, view of the northern front, along with the site plan

Guggenheim Museum, interpretive drawing

Guggenheim Museum, glass roof of the cupola under construction

Guggenheim Museum, perspective drawing

The sleeping area of the cabanon: single bed, lamp, and shelf

Aarhus City Hall, aerial view

Centre Pompidou, aerial view

Maison de Verre, Paris, axonometric

Bijenkorf Department Store, aerial view

Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, site plan, longitudinal elevation, section, and elevation of the whole from the south

Study for the garden design at Highpoint, London, with the residential blocks Highpoint One, at right, and Highpoint Two, at left

Chapel of the Resurrection

Competition design for detached houses to be built of reinforced concrete commissioned by Dansk Cement Central, plan, elevations, and axonometrics of one of the proposals

Guggenheim Museum, section drawing