The international Association Les Amis de Le Corbusier contacts Xenakis, through a former collaborator of the rue de Sèvres studio, José-Luis Sert, to propose the establishment of a program for a center for research and artistic practice dedicated to the visual arts. Located near Le Corbusier’s birthplace in Switzerland, La Chaux-de-Fonds, the center would serve […]
Architecture
Catalog created by Elsa Kiourtsoglou.
The last empress of Iran, Farah Diba-Pahlavi, commissioned Xenakis to build a large cultural complex (over 20,000 m2) in 1971. Several types of rooms for the visual and sound arts were planned, as well as centers for pedagogy and technological research on sound and image, playgrounds and open-air concerts, and a residence park for visiting […]
For his friend René Schneider, one of the co-founders of the CEMAMU (Centre d’Études de Mathématique et Automatique Musicale) Xenakis restored a sheepfold in Corsica, comprising two ruined buildings, to which he added a small extension. We can fin a Xenakis’ touch, such as the “neumatic” openings of the house of Mâche in Amorgos and […]
Through meetings over the decades at the Xenakis’s Paris apartments, he proposed to design a desert house for the couple composer Roger and artist Karen Reynolds. Appreciating Mâche’s home in Greece designed with the assistance of Greek architect Diamandopouls, they began discussions with him in 1984 to design a vacation home on a newly acquired lot in Borrego Springs, California. […]
The Cité de la Musique in the Parc de la Villette in Paris was part of the “great works” under the presidency of François Mitterrand. In 1983, Xenakis, invited as a member of the jury to participate in the architectural competition for this new cultural complex, turned down the invitation by presenting himself as an […]
Mâkhi Xenakis, the composer’s daughter and his husband David Klatzmann, wanted to extend their house located in Paris 13th arrondissement.Around a garden, Xenakis converted the facades on the ground floor and a studio by setting up “undulatory” glass pans. In the living room of the main part of the house, he also designed a circular […]
The Xenakis family spends all their summer vacations in Corsica. A tent and a kayak are enough to discover the wild beauty of the island, which looks like the native Greece of architect. In the middle of the 1960s, they bought a ruined sheepfold that Xenakis furnished in a Spartan style, to stay there in […]