Friday 28 January 2011

A house is a machine to live in

Watersportbaan - Gent

Watersportbaan - Gent

I'm a big fan of Modernist  architecture, but the buildings at the Watersportbaan (Ghent) are a sample of ugly Brutalism.  However, this is regarded as Modernism, you know, the same umbrella under which Le Corbusier belongs...
Unité d'Habitation- roof terrace and nursery
Villa Savoye


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