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Semester II
ON REVOLUTION

Session 11
03.07.2019
Location: Loop, Zurich, CH

Brott, Simone
2013
Le Corbusier and the Fascist Revolution
Treshold 41 “REVOLUTION”
Cambridge, Massachusetts
United States, SA+P Press



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Text Synopsis
The excerpt analyze the last chapter of “Vers une Architecture”: “Architecture ou Revolution”, tracing a relation between the Fascism and the very nature of the 19th century Avantgarde.
Brott demonstrates the affinity  between Le Corbusier and figure like Benito Mussolini and Georges Sorel and Brott the politic content of Le Corbusier famous chapter to the german metaphysic tradition rather then the socialist one. Nietzsche and Hegel becomes here fundamental references to understand the thought of Le Corbusier and more generally some seminal aspects of the modernism, The text refers in particular to the shifting from the initial proposal “architecture and revolution” to the final “architecture or revolution”, elucidating the difference between the two sentences and exploring the space in between.
About the Author
Simone Brott is an architect, writer and critic, and Coordinator of Architectural Design at Queensland University of Technology. She has a Masters of Architecture from Yale University and PhD in Architecture from The University of Melbourne. Brott has lectured internationally at Yale University, Harvard University, Boston University, University of Michigan, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, and The University of Melbourne.
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2013
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Threshold
Cambridge
Massachusetts
SA+PPress
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LC
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