All of Paris, Darkly: Le Corbusier’s Beistegui Apartment, 1929-1931

• Ross James Anderson ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Sydney

     University of Sydney

     Australia

     
• Localización: Le Corbusier: 50 años después / Jorge Torres Cueco (aut.), 2016, ISBN 978-84-9048-373-2, págs. 113-127
• Idioma: español
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  • This paper, All of Paris, Darkly, presents a focused study of Le Corbusier’s enigmatic Beistegui Apartment (1929-1931) on the Champs-Elysée in Paris, with particular reference to the curious camera obscura periscope that was housed ina small lozenge-shaped pavilion on its rooftop. There are manifold reasons for the charisma of the apartment; from theflamboyant eccentricities of the client and his exchanges with the architect, to the exceptional location of apartment in thecentre of Paris, to the apparent repudiation of some of Le Corbusier’s more strident proclamations on architecture and thecity, to the historical conditions that have for all time occluded a definitive scholarly reading of the architectural productionand subsequent inhabitation of the apartment. Grounded in an understanding of the primal visual phenomenon of the cameraobscura, the paper advances an interpretation of the meaning of the periscope apparatus amidst the battery of unusualcontrivances that animated the surrealist penthouse apartment. It further seeks to contribute to a greater understanding ofsome aspects of Le Corbusier’s thinking on architecture and the city.