Adolf Loos helped define Modernist Architecture with his 1908 essay proclaiming ornament to be a crime. His 1908 manifesto, "Ornament and Crime" – a turning point in architectural theory, much discussed and debated to this present day, is read by Carola Regnier, while in the background, we follow photographs of marble tombstones from the 18th century at St. John's Cathedrale in...
Slaughterhouses with concrete blades on top, monumental cemetery gates in the plains: Architect Francisco Salamone (1897–1959) shaped the image of the Argentinean pampa around Buenos Aires. In part 34 of his “Photography and beyond” series, Heinz Emigholz once more probes architecture for biographical traces. Salamone, who immigrated from Sicily as a child, realised his ideas b...
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Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] contrasts the Villa Savoye, built by Le Corbusier in 1931, and Asger Jorn’s Grand Relief, which the Danish painter and sculptor produced in 1959 for the rhus Statsgymnasium. The film makes connections between what, according to the ideological stipulations of their creators, does not belong together.
