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V I # 0 1 - 1 9 2 0 x 1 0 8 0
R a d i a n t C i t y

Resolution:
2 Filmloops w/ 1920 x 1080 pixels

Camera:
Spencer MacDonald / halfmagicfilms.com

The film loops show a before/after comparison of Le Corbusier's
project "Plan Voisin" - a radical urban design for Paris from 1925.

The project comprised the vast demolition of huge parts of the city
center north of Notre Dame and Louvre, spanning from Parc Monceau in
the west to Place de la Republique in the east. Instead of narrow
streets and the city's fragmented, additive and varied structure,
uniform high-rises at the business districts, big apartment blocks in
the residential areas and a motor highway network would dominate the
skyline of Paris today.

The rows of giant housing blocks, the Unites, would be surrounded by
large parks, the dominant office towers would rise tall behind the
trees.

Even though Le Corbusier's proposal seems completely wrong and
devastating from today's perspective, it has indescribable strength.
The contrast between old and new in scale, design and materiality are
disturbing and intriguing at the same time.


exhibited at Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty
10/05/2019 - 15/09/2019
at MAK Frankfurt / Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst

Film Stills:

 
Le Corbusier Plan Voisin_1.jpg
Louvre_Layers Kopie.jpg
Le Corbusier Plan Voisin_3.jpg
Le Corbusier Plan Voisin_4.jpg
Le Corbusier Plan Voisin_6.jpg