Mary McLeod: Le Corbusier, la Nouvelle Femme et la Réforme Domestique
Galerie VI cordially invites you to the first lecture of the year on Friday, January 12, 2018, at 7:00 PM.
The lecture by Mary McLeod “Le Corbusier, the New Woman, and Domestic Reform” will explore the relationship between the work of architect Le Corbusier and the emergence of the “nouvelle femme” (New Woman) movement in France after World War I. It will focus on how the transformation of women's gender identity and their social conditions (such as their status in work and the so-called “crisis of domestic service”) reflected in Le Corbusier's vision of family life in the 1920s. McLeod will present the unique influence of French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand, who sought to create functional living spaces with the belief that better design also creates a better society, on Le Corbusier's studio designs. She will also discuss the role of the movement emerging in France and Germany aimed at domestic reform (especially the influence of Paulette Bernège's work) on Le Corbusier's conception of modern living. One of the topics that will be addressed is the kitchen, which received significant attention in his work in the 1920s. A key focus will be the apartment project for the Salon d'Automne (Autumn Salon) from 1929. The lecture will also include a screening of a short film by Pierre Chenal from 1931, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Architecture of Today), in which Le Corbusier presents three of his villas designed in the late 1920s.
Mary McLeod is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, where she teaches theory and history of architecture. She has also taught at Harvard University, the University of Miami, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. She studied at Princeton University, where she earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In her research and publication work, she focuses on the history of modern movements and contemporary architecture theory, examining topics related to the relationships between architecture and ideologies. She was a co-editor of the anthologies Architecture, Criticism, Ideology and Architecture Reproduction, and also an editor and co-author of the book Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living (Abrams, 2003). She was the initiator and co-curator of the exhibition Charlotte Perriand: Interior Equipment, which took place at the Urban Center in New York. Recently, under the auspices of the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation, she has been co-editing a website focusing on pioneering American women architects. Her articles have been published in periodicals such as Assemblage, Oppositions, Art Journal, AA Files, JSAH, Casabella, Art Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, and Lotus, as well as in other magazines and anthologies – e.g., in Food and the City, Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, Architecture School, The Sex of Architecture, Architecture in Fashion, Architecture of the Everyday, Architecture and Feminism, The Pragmatist Imagination, The State of Architecture, Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished, Architecture Theory since 1968, Oppositions Reader, Le Parole dell'Architettura, and in Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art. She has received several fellowships and awards including the Brunner Award, Fulbright Fellowship, and NEH Award, as well as grants from the New York Council of the Arts and the Graham Foundation.
The lecture is supported by the Embassy of the United States in the Czech Republic.
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The lecture by Mary McLeod “Le Corbusier, the New Woman, and Domestic Reform” will explore the relationship between the work of architect Le Corbusier and the emergence of the “nouvelle femme” (New Woman) movement in France after World War I. It will focus on how the transformation of women's gender identity and their social conditions (such as their status in work and the so-called “crisis of domestic service”) reflected in Le Corbusier's vision of family life in the 1920s. McLeod will present the unique influence of French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand, who sought to create functional living spaces with the belief that better design also creates a better society, on Le Corbusier's studio designs. She will also discuss the role of the movement emerging in France and Germany aimed at domestic reform (especially the influence of Paulette Bernège's work) on Le Corbusier's conception of modern living. One of the topics that will be addressed is the kitchen, which received significant attention in his work in the 1920s. A key focus will be the apartment project for the Salon d'Automne (Autumn Salon) from 1929. The lecture will also include a screening of a short film by Pierre Chenal from 1931, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Architecture of Today), in which Le Corbusier presents three of his villas designed in the late 1920s.
Mary McLeod is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, where she teaches theory and history of architecture. She has also taught at Harvard University, the University of Miami, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. She studied at Princeton University, where she earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In her research and publication work, she focuses on the history of modern movements and contemporary architecture theory, examining topics related to the relationships between architecture and ideologies. She was a co-editor of the anthologies Architecture, Criticism, Ideology and Architecture Reproduction, and also an editor and co-author of the book Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living (Abrams, 2003). She was the initiator and co-curator of the exhibition Charlotte Perriand: Interior Equipment, which took place at the Urban Center in New York. Recently, under the auspices of the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation, she has been co-editing a website focusing on pioneering American women architects. Her articles have been published in periodicals such as Assemblage, Oppositions, Art Journal, AA Files, JSAH, Casabella, Art Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, and Lotus, as well as in other magazines and anthologies – e.g., in Food and the City, Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, Architecture School, The Sex of Architecture, Architecture in Fashion, Architecture of the Everyday, Architecture and Feminism, The Pragmatist Imagination, The State of Architecture, Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished, Architecture Theory since 1968, Oppositions Reader, Le Parole dell'Architettura, and in Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art. She has received several fellowships and awards including the Brunner Award, Fulbright Fellowship, and NEH Award, as well as grants from the New York Council of the Arts and the Graham Foundation.
The lecture is supported by the Embassy of the United States in the Czech Republic.
More information >
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