Friday, 11 May 2012

Gehry vs Corbusier

Both located at a stone's throw from Basel, Switzerland, Frank Gehry's 1989 Vitra Design Museum and Le Corbusier's 1954 La Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut are timeless masterpieces three and a half decades apart.  Yet their uses of white walls and curvilinear forms are strikingly similar.

Gehry in Weil am Rhein, Germany:


Corbusier in Ronchamp, France :