Le Corbusier
The Order of Things

To coincide with its 20-year anniversary, the Zentrum Paul Klee is devoting a major exhibition to the Swiss-French artist-architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965). One of the most influential protagonists of modern architecture and art, Le Corbusier tried to harness his unbridled creativity and enormous energy to reshape the world according to his ideas, to ‘order’ it and create a new living environment through functional and aesthetic architecture. Today, some of his buildings are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 

The exhibition is based around Le Corbusier’s three-dimensional thought and design. The prelude to the architecture is at the centre: the artistic experiment in the ‘workshop of patient research’, as Le Corbusier described his artistic work; feeling one’s way gradually towards the architectural form in studies and plans; the artistic engagement with colour and form, composition and space – and the sources that flow into the process: from found objects on the beach to the architecture of classical antiquity.