1 resultado para Saramago, José, 19222010 Crítica e interpreção
em Queensland University of Technology - ePrints Archive
Resumo:
What is the secret mesmerism that death possesses and under the operation of which a modern architect strident, confident, resolute becomes rueful, pessimistic, or melancholic?1 Five years before Le Corbusiers death at sea in 1965, the architect reluctantly agreed to adopt the project for Lglise Saint-Pierre de Firminy in Firminy-Vert (19602006), following the death of its original architect, Andr Sive, from leukemia in 1958.2 Le Corbusier had already developed, in 1956, the plan for an enclave in the new green Firminy town, which included his youth and culture center and a stadium and swimming pool; the church and a bote miracles near the youth center were inserted into the plan in the 60s. (Le Corbusier was also invited, in 1962, to produce another plan for three Units dHabitation outside Firminy-Vert.) The Saint-Pierre church should have been the zenith of the quartet (the largest urban concentration of works by Le Corbusier in Europe, and what the architect Henri Ciriani termed Le Corbusiers acropolis3) but in the early course of the project, Le Corbusier would suffer the dioceses serial objections to his vision for the church not unlike the difficulties he experienced with Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (19501954) and the resistance to his proposed monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette (19571960). In 1964, the bishop of Saint-tienne requested that Le Corbusier relocate the church to a new site, but Le Corbusier refused and the diocese subsequently withdrew from the project. (With neither the approval, funds, nor the participation of the bishop, by then the cardinal archbishop of Lyon, the first stone of the church was finally laid on the site in 1970.) Le Corbusiers ambivalence toward the project, even prior to his quarrels with the bishop, reveals...
