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Lucien Hervé –Le Corbusier in India

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Simplicity of form, organization, discipline: these are the qualities that define the style of both the architect Le Corbusier and the photographer Lucien Hervé. In both media, they treated light as its own material, adding to the multiple perspectives and balanced shapes an organization of empty space. Architecture is conceived as sculpture, but above all for its functionality.
For the utopic vision shared by Hervé and Le Corbusier was as much aesthetic as it was social, which is why the architect developed several social housing projects, and became involved with urban planning in cities overwhelmed by their expansion, like the Indian megacities of Ahmedabad and Chandigarh, the subjects of the selection of photographs currently on display at Agnès b.

Laurence Cornet

Lucien Hervé: Le Corbusier in India
Until July 28th, 2013
agnès b. Galerie Boutique

50 Howard Street

New York, NY 10013

USA
T 212 431 1335

Le Corbusier by Lucien Hervé
June 7 – July 13, 2013
Keitelman Gallery
44 rue van Eyck
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium

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