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The pyramid and the wall: an unknown project of Le Corbusier in Venezuela

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2002

Alejandro Lapunzina
Alejandro Lapunzina
Affiliation:
School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 611 Taft Drive, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA; [email protected]
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Abstract

In 1951, Le Corbusier designed a funerary chapel in Caracas to honour the memory of Colonel Carlos Delgado-Chalbaud, the recently assassinated president of the Venezuelan military junta. This enigmatic project – unknown until now – provides an interesting insight into Le Corbusier's use of architectural references and their layers of symbolic meaning. Most documents have mysteriously disappeared, but the few remaining have allowed the project to be reconstructed rather accurately.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 255 - 270
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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