Architecture & Power Part I

September 3, 2016

How has society come to associate certain architectural elements with power and importance? In the first episode of two on Architecture & Power, the Babes discuss the grandeur of the Egyptian pyramids, the relationship between the White House and classical antiquity, and cast a critical eye on modern architect, Le Corbusier.

Special Guest: Cristina Urrutia

Sources

Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Western Perspective. Cengage Learning; 14 edition, 2013. 

Botton, Alain De. The Architecture of Happiness. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006.

Links

http://www.biography.com/people/le-corbusier-9376609#the-radiant-city

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/architecture-20c/a/corbusier-savoye

http://bidoun.org/articles/le-corbusier-s-algerian-fantasy

History of Art in Three Colours-White:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkrsM5Pul34

Virtual Tour of Villa Savoye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75YxdWR-M0k