"Le Corbusier understood where architecture was going before anyone else knew it."
Beatriz Colomina, from Princeton University, gave a lecture lecture at the VII congress International Architecture of the University of Navarra.
"Le Corbusier understood where architecture was going before anyone else knew it. He is arguably the most important architect of the 20th century," said architect Beatriz Colomina at the University of Navarra. The expert, who focused her speech on the Swiss artist, is a professor at Princeton University and is participating these days in the VII International Architecture congress "Journeys in the transition of Spanish architecture towards modernity".
"Le Corbusier was the first global architect. Today many architects work in different parts of the world. But Le Courbusier was the first to realize what would happen; he had 'the vision' and was ahead of his time," the professor explained.
He also pointed out that the author traveled to several countries for inspiration and to develop his professional internship : "In the late 1920s he made a trip to Latin America, where he visited cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, and began to develop works for them, not only buildings, but also urban plans. He traveled and worked in various places around the world," he added.
On the theme of congress, the architects' travels, Beatriz Colomina said the following: "To have identified in this congress the topic of the architect's journey is something really intelligent and fundamental. For us, travel is a very important activity, it is part of our training".
exhibition 'Displaced architectures'.
In addition to this speaker, the International Architecture congress of the University of Navarra has counted with the presence of Mark Wigley, Dean of the School of Architecture of Columbia University; Enrique X. de Anda, of the University of Mexico; Joaquín Medina Warmburg, of the University of Kaiserlautern; Jorge Liernur, of the University of Buenos Aires; Werner Oechslin, of the University of Zurich; or Juan José Lahuerta, of the School of Architecture of Barcelona, among others.
Likewise, on the occasion of meeting, the School of Architecture of the academic center has brought to Pamplona the Ministry of Housing 's exhibition 'Arquitecturas desplazadas', which can be visited until May 30 at the conference room Conde Rodezno Exhibition Center. This sample aims to illustrate the collective pathway and staff of 50 architects exiled after the civil war, and to bring to report these people who had to develop their professional practice far from their land of origin.