Sumet Jumsai with Stephen Mullin and John Sergeant "24 NC - Le Corbusier's Apartment in Paris and the Cambridge Connection. "

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Description:	Abstract: The speaker describes his stay in Le Corbusier's apartment in Paris in 2003 in a book entitled "24 NC". The experience felt went back to Cambridge in 1959 when Le Corbusier came to receive his honorary doctorate degree and was ambushed by students who shouted "À bas l'Académie!!", the master's own tirade against university establishment. Stephen Mullin and John Sergeant who were on the scene in 1959 will help to explain the Modern movement at CUSA which was sealed by Le Corbusier's and Henry Moore's joint lecture at the School on that occasion. The speaker would like to dedicate this talk to the coming centenary of the Department of Architecture. Biography: Sumet Jumsai is a former faculty member of the Department of Architecture. His works have been published widely and exhibited at the Venice Biennale 1996.

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Abstract: The speaker describes his stay in Le Corbusier's apartment in Paris in 2003 in a book entitled "24 NC". The experience felt went back to Cambridge in 1959 when Le Corbusier came to receive his honorary doctorate degree and was ambushed by students who shouted "À bas l'Académie!!", the master's own tirade against university establishment. Stephen Mullin and John Sergeant who were on the scene in 1959 will help to explain the Modern movement at CUSA which was sealed by Le Corbusier's and Henry Moore's joint lecture at the School on that occasion. The speaker would like to dedicate this talk to the coming centenary of the Department
of Architecture.

Biography: Sumet Jumsai is a former faculty member of the Department of Architecture. His works have been published widely and exhibited at the Venice Biennale 1996.


Created:	2012-01-13 12:22
Collection:	Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Michaelmas Term
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	S. Jumsai S.Mullin J.Sergeant - Martin Centre
Language:	eng (English)

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