Welcome, members of the print and electronic media. Wrightwood 659’s press team has news releases, press kits, photos, interview referrals, catalogues, brochures, and other informational materials to help orient you to the Gallery’s exhibitions, events, and programs.
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National & International Press
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May 3 - July 27, 2024 Chryssa & New York
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May 3 - July 27, 2024 Spring 2024 Media Alert
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October 13 - December 16, 2023 Fall/Winter Exhibitions 2023
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October 13 – December 16, 2023 Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art
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April 14 - July 15, 2023 Patric McCoy: Take My Picture
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April 14 - July 15, 2023 Shahidul Alam: Singed But Not Burnt
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April 14 - July 15, 2023 Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
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April 14 - July 15, 2023 Spring/Summer 2023 Exhibitions
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Oct 1, 2022 - Jan 28, 2023 Michiko Itatani: Celestial Stage
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Oct 1, 2022 - Jan 28, 2023 The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869-1930
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Oct 1, 2022 - Jan 28, 2023 Fall/Winter 2022 Exhibitions
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Oct 1, 2021 - Jan 28, 2023 Shahidul Alam: We Shall Defy
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May 6 - July 16, 2022 Spring/Summer 2022 Exhibitions
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Sept 24, 2021 - Feb 26, 2022 Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright
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May 7 - July 31, 2021 Yannis Tsarouchis, Dancing in Real Life
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Sept 9 - Dec 12, 2020 Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
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Oct 3 – Dec 14, 2019 Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other National Media Alert
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Oct 3 – Dec 14, 2019 Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other National Media Preview
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Oct 3 – Dec 14, 2019 Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other Calendar Alert
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May 22 - Jul 20, 2019 About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art
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Feb 15 – Apr 27, 2019 Dimensions of Citizenship
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Oct 12 – Dec 15, 2018 Ando and Le Corbusier: Masters of Architecture
In the News
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October 27, 2023 Third Coast Review, "Surveillance, Privacy, Erasure—Wrightwood 659 Exhibit Explores the Impact of Technology in Art"
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October 27, 2023 Block Club Chicago, "At Wrightwood 659 Gallery, Artists Explore What It Means To Live In Digital World"
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October 26, 2023 Newcity, "Consider Ourselves: A Review of “Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art” at Wrightwood 659"
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October 24, 2023 Windy City Times, "Sean Fader memorializes LGBTQ+ history with Insufficient Memory"
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July 10, 2023 Chicago Tribune, “A conversation with Patric McCoy, who photographed Black gay men enjoying themselves in 1980s Chicago"
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July 6, 2023 WBEZ, "Chicago Innovators: Meet artist and art collector Patric McCoy"
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June 29, 2023 i-D, "Photographing Chicago’s Black gay culture in the 80s"
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June 28, 2023 WebToday, "Artist Shahidul Alam: ‘Photography Does Things That Words Cannot Do So Effectively’"
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June 23, 2023 Barron's, "Chicago Through the Eye of an Art Lover"
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June 20, 2023 WGN9, "Stunning photos document gay, Black life in 1980s Chicago"
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June 15, 2023 Windy City Times, "Patric McCoy exhibition unearths forgotten moments from Chicago's Black queer history"
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May 30, 2023 Queerty, "At the center of Patric McCoy's lens is Black gay men and the stories they tell"
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May 26, 2023 The Crusader, "Patric McCoy: Take My Picture Exhibit at Wrightwood 659 Chicago Gallery"
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May 24, 2023 Chicago Reader, "Only Romance: Artist Kongkee uses the past as a metaphor to discuss the present"
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May 13, 2023 Go Pride, "Patric McCoy: Take My Picture takes over Wrightwood 659"
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May 2, 2023 Hyde Park Herald, "Portraits of the past: Kenwood artist documents 1980s Black, gay Chicago"
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May 1, 2023 New City Art, "The Power of Truth: A Review of Shahidul Alam at Wrightwood 659"
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April 27, 2023 New City Art, "Gone But Not Forgotten: A Review of Patric McCoy at Wrightwood 659"
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April 17, 2023 AnOther Magazine, "A Celebratory Portrait of 1980s Black Gay Chicago"
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April 5, 2023 The Queer Review, "Exclusive Interview: Patric McCoy on capturing 1980s Black gay Chicago 'these men wanted to be seen & documented the way they were'"
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January 10, 2023 The Brooklyn Rail, "Michiko Itatani: Celestial Stage"
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January 7, 2023 Lumpen Radio, "Interview with Jonathan David Katz"
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December 1, 2022 New Art Examiner, "'The First Homosexuals': The Interplay of Art and Language"
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December 1, 2022 New Art Examiner, "Celestial Stage: Michiko Itatani at Wrightwood 659"
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December 1, 2022 Bad at Sports, "Sub-rural #12, Miciko Itatani"
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November 22, 2022 New City, "A Celebration of Identity: A Review of 'The First Homosexuals'" at Wrightwood 659
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November 20, 2022 Chicago Tribune, "Emergence of a 'new identity'"
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November 8, 2022 Visual Art Source, "Michiko Itatani, 'Celestial Stage'"
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October 13, 2022 Block Club Chicago, "Chicago-Based Artist Michiko Itatani Explores Efforts To Understand The Universe In New Wrightwood 659 Exhibition"
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July 20, 2022 Metropolis, "An Exhibition Explores the Complex Legacy of America's Most Common Construction System"
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July 15, 2022 The Architect's Newspaper, "In Chicago, American Framing exposes the nation's long-concealed construction method"
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July 13, 2022 New City, "Beyond the Ordinary: A Review of American Framing at Wrightwood 659"
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June 17, 2022 ArchDaily, "How the Wood-Frame House Became America's Most Familiar Building"
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May 27, 2022 Architectural Record, "'American Framing' Returns to Wood Framing's Geographic and Cultural Origin"
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May 21, 2022 Chicago Tribune, "Top 10 art shows for the summer"
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May 13, 2022 City Pleasures, "Three New Shows Compound the Pleasure at Wrightwood 659"
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May 10, 2022 Third Coast Review, "Review: 'American Framing' Highlights Trio of New Exhibits at Wrightwood 659"
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November 19, 2020 New City, Building Community: A Review of Balkrishna Doshi at Wrightwood 659
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November 13, 2020 Dezeen, Four Balkrishna Doshi projects exploring Hindu philosophy in India
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November/December 2020 Orientations, Interview with James McDonough
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November 1, 2020 Sampling India Through Architecture Of Balkrishna Doshi And Artwork Of Rina Banerjee
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October 30, 2020 Modern Luxury Interiors Chicago, Wrightwood 659 Welcomes Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture For The People Exhibit
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October 4, 2020 WDCB, The Arts Section (audio)
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October 2, 2020 The Architect's Newspaper, Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People gets the order right, puts people before architecture
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October 2020 Compelling Exhibition of Indian Master Doshi Opens in Chicago
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September 24, 2020 Pritzker Prize–Winning Architect Balkrishna Doshi Believes Design Should Be Democratized
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September 23, 2020 Chicago Reader, Balkrishna Doshi designs for the people
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September 22, 2020 Chicago Tribune, A renowned Indian architect gets a Chicago showcase as Lincoln Park gallery celebrates Doshi’s humanistic designs
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September 21 Surface, A Look Back at Balkrishna Doshi’s Best-Known Buildings
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September 16, 2020 City Pleasures, Wrightwood 659 Showcases Visionary Architect
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September 2020 Interior Design, "Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People" Exhibition Debuts Stateside
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August 31, 2020 Daniella On Design, Architecture for the People
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August 31, 2020 Architectural Digest India, Chicago: For the first time ever, a retrospective on BV Doshi is being held in the US
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August 28, 2020 Not In Town, Wrightwood 659 presents first US exhibition of Pritzker Prize-winning Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi
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August 28, 2020 India Blooms, Wrightwood 659 presents first US exhibition of Pritzker Prize-winning Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi
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August 14, 2020 Desi Talk Chicago, Famous Indian Architect To Be Featured In Chicago Exhibition
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August 13, 2020 News India Times, Famous Indian architect to be featured in Chicago exhibition
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July 29, 2020 Sawdust, Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 to host exhibition on BV Doshi’s works
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July 28, 2020 Architectural Record, Chicago's Wrightwood 659 to Host Balkrishna Doshi Exhibition
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July 26, 2020 Windy City Times, Wrightwood 659 showing Doshi exhibit Sept. 9-Dec. 12
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June 29, 2020 Ahmedabad Mirror, Chicago-bound
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Ongoing Air Mail, Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
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June 22, 2020 The Architect's Newspaper, Wrightwood 659 will stage first U.S. retrospective of Balkrishna Doshi this fall
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June 18, 2020 ArchDaily, First U.S. Exhibition of Pritzker Prize-Winner Balkrishna Doshi to Open in September
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June 16, 2020 Daniella on Design, Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
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Feb. 19, 2020 Hyde Park Herald, Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
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Feb. 18, 2020 Chicago Reader, ‘The Allure of Matter’ pushes boundaries
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Feb 13, 2020 City Pleasures, Joint Exhibition a Singular Triumph
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Dec 18, 2019 Chicago Reader, Six visual art shows that made 2019 bearable
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Dec 10, 2019 Chicago Reader, Tetsuya Ishida’s first U.S. retrospective isn’t for the faint of heart
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Dec 3, 2019 Art Asia Pacific, SELF-PORTRAIT OF OTHER TETSUYA ISHIDA
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Dec 1, 2019 Choose Chicago, 10 must-see Chicago museum exhibits this month
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Nov 20, 2019 WTTW TV (PBS), Tetsuya Ishida’s First US Show Features Moody Portraits of 20th Century Life
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Nov 20, 2019 MSN News, Japanese ‘cult’ artist Tetsuya Ishida depicts Japan’s relentlessly conformism and technology’s control at Wrightwood 659
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Nov 16, 2019 Hyperallergic, Life-and-Death Paintings, From a Career Cut Short
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Nov 14, 2019 Chicago Tribune, Japanese ‘cult’ artist Tetsuya Ishida depicts Japan’s relentlessly conformism and technology’s control at Wrightwood 659
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Nov 12, 2019 New Art Examiner, 21st Century Surrealism: "Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other”
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Oct 8, 2019 Third Coast Review, Playtime Radio: Lots of Art, Poetry, Music by The Locals, and the Pinball Expo
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Sept 27, 2019 New York Times, Don’t Miss These Art Shows and Events This Fall
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Aug 23, 2019 Crain’s Chicago Business, The best art to see this fall
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Aug 2, 2019 New York Times, In Chicago, Overlooked Achievements by L.G.B.T.Q. Artists
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Jul 29, 2019 Newcity Art, Queer/Architectural Passing in Wrightwood 659’s “About Face”
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Jul 19, 2019 Sedition, About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art
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May 30, 2019 Chicago Tribune, Queer art celebration honors Stonewall anniversary by looking beyond the binary
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May 22, 2019 WTTW, Not Just Stonewall: New Show Explores 50 Years of Queer Art
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Apr 1, 2019 Frieze, How Keller Easterling Wants to Hack Migration and Capital Flight
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Apr 2019 Newcity, A Space for Citizenship
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Mar 19, 2019 Architectural Record, ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’ Dreams of Belonging Best at the Smallest and Largest Scales
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Mar 12, 2019 Chicago Tribune, 7 highlights from Venice Architecture Biennale are now in the soaring Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago
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Mar 12, 2019 WTTW, Artists, Architects Reimagine the Possibilities of Design in ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’
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Mar 12, 2019 TL Magazine, Dimensions of Citizenship: investigating pressing issues of our day
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Feb 15, 2019 Architectural Digest, "Dimensions of Citizenship" Exhibit Moves from Venice Biennale to Chicago
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Feb 14, 2019 Chicago Reader, 'Dimensions of Citizenship' at Wrightwood 659 and 'Stateless' at MoCP examine what global citizenship looks like today
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Dec 12, 2018 Windy City Times, Wrightwood 659 Celebrates Social Justice, Architecture
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Dec 10, 2018 Chicago Tribune, Best Architecture for 2018: It was a Vital Year, Just Not in the Usual Places
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Dec 3, 2018 Architectural Record, The Big Reveal
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Oct 12, 2018 The New York Times, A Tadao Ando-Designed Exhibition Space Opens in Chicago
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Oct 4, 2018 The Architect's Newspaper, Tadao Ando–designed architecture exhibition space opens in Chicago
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Sept 28, 2018 Archinect, Tadao Ando-designed Wrightwood 659 art venue to open in Chicago with exhibition on Ando and Le Corbusier