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About:
José Oubrerie, a French architect, was a protégé of Le Corbusier. A former dean of the University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, he now teaches at Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus, Ohio. Ouberie earned his degree in architecture in 1968 from the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux Arts, Paris. He also studied at the Atelier Le Corbusier, Paris France, from 1958-65.
Articles:
(Selected
from 1988-2007)
"Oubrerie's Miller house vandalized." Architectural Record,
2007 June, v.195, n.6, p.36.
"Le Corbusier and José Oubrerie are unusual collaborators on the Eglise Saint-Pierre de Firminy, whose design took 43 years to complete in the Loire Valley." Architectural Record,
2007 June, v.195, n.6, p.[108]-[115],138,228.
"Miraculous rebirth: church and art museum, Firminy, France ." Architectural Record,
2007 Mar., v.221, n.1321, p.62-[67].
Ouroussof, Nicolai. "A Church in France is Almost a Triumph for Le Corbusier ." The New York Times,
September 28, 2006.
"Architecture before geometry, or the primacy of imagination." Assemblage,
1999 Aug., n.39, p.[94]-105.
"Miller house, Lexington, Kentucky 1988-92."
Oubrerie, José. GA Houses 1992 July, n.35, p.[10]-29.
"José Oubrerie." Pinney, Paul. Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 1991 Apr., no.274, p.106-111.
"French cultural centre Damascus." Mimar: architecture in development
1988 Mar., no.27, p.12-20.
Articles listed above are
available in the CCNY Architecture Library.
Web Sites:
Knowlton School of Architecture. knowlton.osu.edu/?content=29&faculty=40
Wexner Center for the Arts. www.wexarts.org/db/press/470_Architecture_Interruptus_press_release.pdf
Information on the completion of the Firminy Church.
International Herald Tribune. www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/11/features/corbu.php=
A 2005 article on the Firminy Church's completion.
Prepared by Judy Connorton
September 2007
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