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Le Corbusier and Crowds: Un centre national de réjouissances populaires de 100,000 participants, 1936
In 1936, Le Corbusier proposed his first stadium, which he entitled a Centre national de réjouissances populaires de 100,000 participants. It was a spectacular cultural, sporting, and political vision for Paris as it was to hold 100,000 spectators. This was his first project to deal with architecture’s relationship with the crowd, and through Elias Canetti’s definition of the closed vs. open crowd, this paper investigates how Le Corbusier treated and understood the crowd through its relationship not only with the spectacle immediately in front of it in the stadium, but also with its relationship to national identity and politics outside the arena.
Le Corbusier and Crowds: Un centre national de réjouissances populaires de 100,000 participants, 1936
In 1936, Le Corbusier proposed his first stadium, which he entitled a Centre national de réjouissances populaires de 100,000 participants. It was a spectacular cultural, sporting, and political vision for Paris as it was to hold 100,000 spectators. This was his first project to deal with architecture’s relationship with the crowd, and through Elias Canetti’s definition of the closed vs. open crowd, this paper investigates how Le Corbusier treated and understood the crowd through its relationship not only with the spectacle immediately in front of it in the stadium, but also with its relationship to national identity and politics outside the arena.
Le Corbusier and Crowds: Un centre national de réjouissances populaires de 100,000 participants, 1936
Mackay, Toby (author) / Brott, Simone (author)
Architectural Theory Review ; 23 ; 233-255
2019-05-04
23 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Le Corbusier , stadia , crowds , Canetti , politics
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