scholarly journals Ronchamp in the spotlight. The feature of a shocking building in the 50s journals

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Casas Cobo
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deep Blue ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Devil

Abstract: Although currently it is largely accepted that Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp is one of the milestones in Le Corbusier’s works, there is no less agreement in saying that it was one of the most controversial of his works and one turning point in modern architecture, not only in terms of digging a grave for functionalism but to opening a window to a wide bunch of architects and works that would have been excluded from history and maybe forever otherwise. In order to recall its importance, we must look back to how architectural journals featured Ronchamp in the mid fifties as, on one hand, Le Corbusier was not a young architect but a very well known and respected one with an international reputation and therefore, it was not easy to criticize his works and, on the other hand, Ronchamp was such a shocking building for many colleagues who had no choice but writing about it that somehow they were between the Devil and the deep blue sea.  Keywords: Ronchamp; debate; journals; historiography, contemporary; criticism. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.942

scholarly journals « L’espace indicible »: conceptions et textualités

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaël Labbé
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Experiential Quality

Résumé: La notion d’« espace indicible » occupe sans conteste une position centrale dans la théorie architecturale de Le Corbusier après 1945. Loin d’être un simple mot-valise ou un signifiant vide de sens, le concept d’espace indicible vise à penser le sommet de l’expérience esthétique et spirituelle dont est passible l’architecture, cela tant pour rendre compte de l’émotion plastique ressentie face aux chefs-d’œuvre du passé que pour décrire la qualité de l’expérience que l’architecte cherche à produire par ses propres œuvres. Ainsi, dans l’œuvre de Le Corbusier, l’expression « l’espace indicible » désigne non seulement un concept, mais également un ensemble textuel dans lequel la notion est thématisée et au travers duquel elle se constitue progressivement. L’objectif de cet article est double : d’une part, proposer une description des déterminations principales du contenu donné par Le Corbusier à la notion d’« espace indicible » ; d’autre part, à partir de l’examen des archives, faire le point sur les textes dans lesquels ce concept se formule. Abstract: The concept of “ineffable space” unquestionably occupies a central place in Le Corbusier's architectural theory after 1945. Far from being a portmanteau or a signifier devoid of meaning, the concept of ineffable space is aimed at conceiving the height of aesthetic and spiritual experience rendered possible by architecture. This is as much to realise plastic emotion felt in front of masterpiece from the past as to describe the experiential quality that the architect seeks to produce in his/her own work. Thus, in Le Corbusier’s oeuvre, the expression “ineffable space” not only denotes a concept but also a textual whole in which the concept is thematised and through which it is progressively constituted. The aim of this article is two-fold. On the one hand, I propose a description of the principle determinants of the content that Le Corbusier assigns to the concept of “ineffable space”, and on the other hand, analysing the archives, I wish to take stock of the texts in which this concept is formulated.  Mots-clés: Le Corbusier; espace indicible; théorie architecturale. Keywords: Le Corbusier; ineffable space; architectural theory. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.470

scholarly journals Le « jeune » Flaubert et l’apprentissage des genres littéraires

FRANCISOLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Moulay Youssef SOUSSOU
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Young Writer ◽  
Genres Litteraires

RÉSUMÉ. L’étude des premiers écrits de Flaubert est  un domaine encore inexploré. Une telle étude est tellement salutaire pour saisir la formation de l’écrivain et décrire l’évolution de son style à travers les différentes étapes de son œuvre de jeunesse marquée par l’exploration de plusieurs genres littéraires. Pourquoi le jeune écrivain privilégie-t-il deux genres majeurs, le genre autobiographique qui lui permet de concrétiser sa faculté lyrique et le genre théâtral où se révèle sa nature oratoire ? Le style de Flaubert est animé par les deux dimensions lyrique et oratoire, lesquelles dimensions marquent le premier roman de maturité Madame Bovary. Si ce roman marque un tournant dans la carrière de l’auteur c’est d’une part parce qu’il cumule les procédés de l’œuvre de jeunesse et d’autre part constitue le dépouillement du style de cette même œuvre. C’est avec et contre les procédés de l’écriture romantique que Flaubert forgera son style. Mots clés : Evolution, Flaubert, Genre, style, Roman.   ABSTRACT. The study of Flaubert's early writings is a domain that has not been explored yet. Conducting such a study is so beneficial for grasping the writer's formation and describing the evolution of his style through the different stages of his youthful work, which is marked by the exploration of several literary genres. Why does the young writer privilege two major genres, the autobiographical genre that allows him to concretize his lyric faculty and the theatrical genre in which his oratorical nature is revealed? Flaubert's style is animated by the two lyrical and oratorical dimensions, which characterize maturity of his first novel Madame Bovary. If this novel marks a turning point in the author’s career, it is because, on the one hand, it combines the processes of the work of youth, and, on the other hand, it consitutes the emerging style of the same work. It is with and against the processes of romantic writing that Flaubert forges his style. Keywords : Evolution, Flaubert, genre, novel, style.

Legal Diversity in the Age of Taqlid: the Four Chief Qadis Under the Mamluks

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yossef Rapoport
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
School Affiliation

Sultan Baybars' decision to appoint four Chief Qādīs , one from each of the Sunni schools of law, has long been recognized as a turning point in the history of the madhhabs. To date, historians have explained this decision only in political or ideological terms, paying little attention to its implications for the judicial system. Here I argue that the purpose of the new quadruple structure of the judiciary was two-fold: to create a uniform but at the same time flexible legal system. The need for predictable and stable legal rules was addressed by limiting qādīs' discretion and promoting taqlīd , i.e., adherence to established school doctrine. The establishment of Chief Qādīs from the four schools of law, on the other hand, allowed for flexibility and prevented the legal system from becoming too rigid. The quadruple judiciary enabled litigants, regardless of personal school affiliation, to choose from the doctrines of the four schools.

Frequentie en luie-stoeltaalkunde : Een Friese taalkundige blikt terug op Nederlandse Taalkunde en op zichzelf

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-204
Author(s):  
Eric Hoekstra
Keyword(s):  
Generative Grammar ◽  
The Other ◽  
Adequate Treatment ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The One

Abstract Frequency and arm-chair linguistics. A Frisian linguist looks back on Dutch Linguistics and on himselfIn this contribution I focus on a paper written by Maarten Lemmens on progressive constructions, which appeared in Dutch Linguistics (2015). This paper illustrates the usefulness of frequency in linguistic research convincingly. Additionally I discuss the tension within generative grammar between vision on the one hand and a methodologically adequate treatment of data on the other hand. Finally, I look back on my own activities as a linguist, presenting some personal thoughts about the question what the usefulness is of mediocrity.

“The Devil Begins to Roar”: Opposition to Early Methodists in New England

2006 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
French Government ◽  
Sexual Predators ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
The Devil

In the several decades after their arrival in the New England states in the late 1780s, Methodists were the objects of a wide variety of attacks, some of them mutually contradictory. Their preachers were accused of being pickpockets, horse thieves, and sexual predators, while on the other hand some converts were mocked for their excessive moral seriousness. They were suspected alternatively of being agents of the English crown, spies for the French government, and Jeffersonian radicals. Further, to some it seemed that their episcopal form of government and ecclesiastical tribunals functioned as a sort of shadow government undermining the political institutions of the nation. They were attacked for their Arminian theology, in defense of which they vigorously condemned Calvinist doctrine. They were mocked as enthusiasts and fanatics whose preachers, pretending to an immediate divine calling, inflamed the passions of their listeners and whose gatherings degenerated into bedlams of disorder, confusion, and moral scandal. They were disturbers of churches, transgressing parochial boundaries, sowing disorder, and fracturing the covenant relationship between minister and flock, all of which recalled memories of the upheaval accompanying the awakenings of the 1740s. They were unlearned rustics not fit to instruct people in divinity, but they were also sly enough to worm their way into the hearts and minds of people by shrewdly hiding their true intentions and prejudicing their hearers against the standing ministers.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Christian Paravas: A ‘Client Community’ in Seventeenth-Century Southeast India

Itinerario ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus P.M. Vink
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deep Blue ◽  
Long Time ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Southeast India

[T] he Paravas [are] a maritime people, seated on this Pearle Coast, whose greatest livelihood is Natures bounty, which she in that kind annually bestowes and which art qualifies them in like manner to receive… This nation about one hundred and thirty yeares agoe was a limb of heathenisme, out of which roughquarry it was hewen by papall industry and so became a Jewell of the Triple Crown. The Jesuites, who at first converted them, for a long time after govern'd them in a way both ecclestiasticall andcivill. This latter yoake weares of and delivers up civill concernments into the hands of the civill power, the corruption of one kindof government being the generation of the other. In this state matters rested when, about five yeares agoe (the Portugall greatnesse being then far declin'd from its zenith) the Dutch possesse[d] themselves of this coast, which ever since, they have govern'd by way of judicature and awed by their power. This gave occasion for the persons above mentioned [certaine persons of quality, natives of Tutticorrim and heads of their nation] to recede [into the interior]… This [loss of Cochin in early 1663] involves them in fresh cares, and those send them in great quest of other props to stay themselves upon… Their desires therefore are that themselves, together with their adherents, may be taken into the protection of the English; that they with their padre (who is the hinge whereon they turne) may have their dwellings at Cale Velha [Palaiyakkayal], the seate of our factorie, free from violence; and their boates, by virtue of our passeports, to navigate the seas void of all disturbances.

scholarly journals Charles-Edouard Jeanneret miembro de l´OEUVRE

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Jiménez Caballero
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
The Other ◽  
Added Value ◽  
First Line ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Artistic Quality

Resumen: Esta investigacióvn presenta la influencia en Charles-Edouard Jeanneret de su maestro Charles L´Eplattenier a través de dos instituciones: l´École d´Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds donde ambas figuras se encontraron y la asociación de la Suiza francófona l´OEUVRE, en la que los dos coincidieron también un breve espacio de tiempo en la misma época. La actividad en ambas instituciones representa la doble vertiente de un único proyecto para reformar los procesos artísticos ligados a los oficios artesanales; el propósito era incorporar al producto industrial producido en serie el valor añadido de su calidad artística, siguiendo el ejemplo de la Werkbund alemana. Para tal fin era necesario llevar a cabo una profunda reforma en el programa de enseñanza de dibujo en l´École d´Art, y desarrollar a la vez, una serie de acciones que permitieran visualizar los logros alcanzados. Su estrategia estaba apoyada en dos pilares: formación y propaganda. La presente investigación detalla de que manera Jeanneret participó en este proyecto a través de su intervención tanto en l´École d´Art y las nuevas estructuras para renovar la enseñanza del dibujo, como en la asociación l¨OEUVRE y sus distintos proyectos, A través de estas iniciativas encontramos el origen de algunos temas a los que Le Corbusier dedicará su atención; identificamos personajes que jugarán un papel importante en distintos momentos de su vida o proyectos y artículos que anunciarán propuestas teóricas y prácticas de sus trabajos posteriores. Abstract: This research presents the influence in Charles-Edouard Jeanneret of his master Charles L'Eplattenier in the context of two institutions. On one hand ´École d´Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds, where both figures met and where they established a first line of common work; and on the other hand, the association from the french-speaking Switzerland called l'Oeuvre, in which both briefly met. The activity in both institutions had the same goal and was in reality a single project: the reform of artistic processes bounded to the craft trades to provide the mass-produced industrial goods with the added value of artistic quality, following the example of the Deutscher Werkbund. In order to do this, it was necessary to carry out a profound reform of the drawing education program of l´Ecole d´Art and develop a series of propaganda actions allowing to visualize its achievements. Thus, the strategy was based on two pillars: education and propaganda. This research details how Jeanneret contributed to this project through his involvement in both, l´École d´Art’s renovation of drawing education and the Association l'Oeuvre’s various projects. Through them we discover the origin of some of the subjects that Le Corbusier will devote its attention to, characters that will play an important role in different moments of his life, or projects and articles that announce theoretical proposals or practices of his subsequent work.  Palabras clave: Cours Supérieur; Nouvelle Section; Ateliers d´Art Réunis; L´OEUVRE. Keywords: Cours Supérieur; Nouvelle Section; Ateliers d´Art Réunis; L´OEUVRE. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.634

scholarly journals Avestan Architecture: A Descriptive Etymological Lexicon

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Mahsa Hashemi ◽  
Hossein Najari
Keyword(s):  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
The Future

The Avesta could be considered as the most important masterpiece of ancient literature of Iran and its older parts as the oldest belletristic exploits. The importance of Avesta is firstly in its religious value and its sanctity and secondly in the picture it draws for us of ancient Iran. On the other hand, architecture is the greatest aspect of art and a very old one. Not many people have analyzed or interpreted the ancient Iranian texts in the context of architecture. In this research, the focus was on viewing the ancient Architecture of Iran through the Avesta, which was definitely used for religious purposes at that time. There is no doubt that nowadays, centuries after the era of Avesta, there is a huge difference between our modern architecture and the Avestan architecture. The main goal of this research was making a descriptive and etymological lexicon on Avestan architecture. Therefore, firstly every single vocabulary was studied etymologically, discussed literary and also given one example of the use of it in the Avesta. Finally, the authors have reached the conclusion that the Ahuramazda versus Ahriman fight can even be traced in the ancient architecture of Iran and its architectural descriptions, which can be studied more in the future.

A New Materiality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Wiberg
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Road ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
The One

The previous chapter provided us with a theory of the materiality of interaction. So, where do we go from here? Well, in order to move forward, I use this chapter to suggest that we might now need to look back in order to see the road ahead of us more clearly. In this chapter I therefore present how a focus on the materiality of interaction one the one hand leaves any distinctions between the physical and the digital behind, and how it on the other hand presents us with three distinct challenges as we move forward through the material turn.

Introduction

1984 ◽  
pp. 11-16
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Middle Ages

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the three Jewish–Christian disputations which took place in the Middle Ages: the Paris Disputation of 1240, the Barcelona Disputation of 1263, and the Tortosa Disputation of 1413–14. Of these, the most celebrated is the Barcelona Disputation of 1263, the Jewish account of which was written by Moses Naḥmanides. The Paris Disputation was not really a disputation at all, but an interrogation in which the Jewish spokesman, Rabbi Yeḥiel, was given very little scope for the exposition of fundamental Jewish ideas; he was severely hampered both by the restricted role he was given, and by the limits of the interrogation itself, which was confined to allegedly anti-Christian passages of the Talmud. The Tortosa Disputation, on the other hand, was a true disputation, in which the same areas were covered as in the Barcelona Disputation, but under much inferior conditions. At Barcelona, however, many factors came together to form the greatest confrontation between Christianity and Judaism in the Middle Ages. In addition, the Barcelona Disputation took place at a turning-point in Jewish history.

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