Building plate Philips Pavilion by Le Corbusier, Victor Veldhuyzen van Zanten Doos, 22 x 22 cm, with text booklet of 30 pages (Ned/Eng/Fr), base plate, 13 pre-cut sheets of cardboard, brush with tube of silver paint. Le Corbusier's buildings are among the most important and moving achievements of modern architecture and continue to be a source of inspiration for several generations of architects. His somewhat eccentric Philips pavilion, perhaps the most memorable building at the Expo 1958 in Brussels, anticipates the neo-expressionist movements in contemporary architecture and our current fascination with phenomena such as light, sound, image and all kinds of media. The 'Poème électronique' arose from the collaboration between Le Corbusier, engineer Yannis Xenakis and composer Edgar Varèse. The sound and light show consisted of film clips, colored lighting and music fragments and was performed in a dark, disturbing room. The complex form of the silver-coloured, stomach-shaped auditorium also testified to an unimaginable creative capacity.
