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6 unusual facts about Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

The French artist Pierre Huyghe explored the creation of the building in his 2004 work This Is Not A Time For Dreaming".

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During his career, Le Corbusier developed a set of architectural principles that dictated his technique, called "the Five Points of a New Architecture" which were most evident in his Villa Savoye.

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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the only building actually built by Le Corbusier in the United States, and one of only two in the Americas (the other is the Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina).

Modulor

In the Carpenter Center the Modulor system was used for the brise-soleil distances, the floor to floor heights, the bay distances and the column thicknesses.

Paffard Keatinge-Clay

Here, an elongated north-south ramp (similar to LeCorbusier's 1961 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts) is driven into and through (instead of between) the "working" art studios.

Penelope Umbrico

Umbrico has participated in numerous group exhibitions including those at MoMA PS1, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; The Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; The Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among others.