Space Calculated in Seconds: The Phillips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese
de Marc Treib
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The pavilion designed by Le Corbusier for the Philips Company at the 1958 Brussels World's fair broadcasted a landmark multimedia production. The nearly two million visitors who entered the pavilion were treated not to the usual display of consumer products, but to a dazzling demonstration of cutting-edge technology in the service of the arts. This totally automated spectacle consisted of colour, voice, sound, and images sperimposed in a curvilinear space of concrete, orchestrated by Le Corbusier and his colleagues into a 480-second program. Here, Marc Treib looks at both this collaboration and the significance of the Philips project. Achieving for the first time his interest in using electronic media as a synthesis of the arts, Le Corbusier worked with the filmaker Philippe Agostini, the graphic designer and editor Jean Petit, the architect/composer Iannis Xenakis, and the composer Edgar Varese, whose piece "Poeme electronique" was composed for this project. Treib explains the idea and development of the building design - based on the geometry of the hyperbolic paraboloid - and how this ambitious vision materialized through an innovative system of precast concrete panels, engineer
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- Librería
- OPR Fine Books (NL)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16
- Título
- Space Calculated in Seconds
- Autor
- Marc Treib
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
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- ISBN 10
- 0691021376
- ISBN 13
- 9780691021379
- Editorial
- Princeton University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Princeton, Nj
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Páginas
- 302 pages
- Tamaño
- 22.86 x 3.18 x 29.21 cm
- Palabras clave
- Corbusier, Philips Pavilion, Edgard Varese
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