Corbusian

But to a later generation, the Corbusian model did not look so idealistic.

It does not require a long memory to recall why both Corbusian models eventually came under attack.

The Corbusian concept behind the construction of the estate was of a modern living environment.

Most of the buildings show Niemeyer's particular approach to the Corbusian language.

Tim works in an armchair by the "Corbusian" window in the corner of the sitting room.

This 35-story complex was conceived and based on Corbusian ideas of a self-contained city within a city.

If you want to paint yourself into a cool, Corbusian corner at home, consult the Birkh 6.

The Corbusian Ville Radieuse was promoted as a public health mission.

Countless others have cluttered the skyline and streetscape with cheap imitations of Corbusian models.

Imagine an early Corbusian building redrawn by Philip Guston.

Its 25 levels have been nicknamed "streets in the air", a development of the Corbusian ideal, and offer convenient spots for social interaction and intermingling.

Its structure was clearly influenced by the Mies' Seagram Building and Corbusian columns.

However, Niemeyer refined the Corbusian style with a series of innovations and developed a distinct style of his own.

The building is made up of geometric, Corbusian forms, but also has numerous references to Scotland, such as brochs and castellated, defensive architecture.

It is in fact the very famous Casa Amsterdam, designed in a Corbusian style, by Arq.

He joined Richard Meier Associates where he honed his Corbusian style in residential and commercial buildings.

At entry level, the elaborate double-ramped loggia of Wells House achieves the Corbusian effect of lifting the building from the ground.

As the American writer Jane Jacobs poignantly observed, the Corbusian city was not only isolating, it stunted the normal growth of urban areas.

In the casino, with its relatively rigid main façade, Niemeyer departed from Corbusian principles and designed curved volumes outside the confinement of a rational grid.

Tropical sunshine on northern glass walls is controlled by Corbusian brises-soleil (sun-shades) made adjustable in a system that was the first of its kind in the world.

The need to reconstruct Europe's battle-torn cities after the Second World War opened up the kind of tabula rasa the Corbusian model called for.

New residents, failing to appreciate the building's Corbusian details, have tried to redo the elevators in brass and mahogany, said Helen Rachlin, a longtime resident.

Quotations from similar Corbusian buildings of the period are everywhere such as the light cannons of LaTourette or the hand railings standard in the Atelier.

This is a decidedly Corbusian color scheme; as my 9-year-old put it, gesturing in the direction of a house she'd made, "If that was hot pink, it wouldn't look modern."

On Perry Street, the Corbusian brise-soleil, a concrete sunscreen device for use in tropical climes, has been etherealized into flat metal filigree on the western facades.