5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for February 2022
...Having studied engineering in Athens Iannis Xenakis was forced to flee Greece in the late 1940s against the background of the Civil War, and landed in Paris where he found a position as an engineer in the office of Le Corbusier, with whom, as previously discussed, he contributed to projects such as, and amongst others, l’Unité d’Habitation in Marseille or the new city of Chandigarh in northern India, and also developed la bouteille for Le Corbusier's Poème électronique at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels... If a bouteille Le Corbusier was unwilling to publicly acknowledge as Xenakis', leading to a parting of the ways...