Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is a modernist building at Harvard University renowned as the only structure in North America designed by the influential architect Le Corbusier.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Harvard University building
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art center → building → |
| architect |
Le Corbusier
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| architecturalStyle |
Brutalist architecture
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| campusArea |
Harvard Yard vicinity
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| coArchitect |
Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente
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| commissionedBy |
Harvard University
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| constructionStartYear |
1959
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| country |
United States
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| designPrinciple |
free façade
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free ground plan → pilotis → ribbon windows → roof garden → |
| floorCount |
5
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| function |
exhibition space
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teaching facility → visual arts center → |
| hasFacility |
art studios
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cinema and screening room → exhibition galleries → offices and classrooms → |
| hasHeritageStatus |
recognized example of modernist architecture
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| houses |
Harvard Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
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Harvard Film Archive → |
| influencedBy |
Le Corbusier’s Five Points of Architecture
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| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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| locatedOnCampusOf |
Harvard University
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| material |
reinforced concrete
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| name |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
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| namedAfter |
Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
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| near |
Harvard Yard
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Prescott Street → Quincy Street → |
| notableFeature |
brise-soleil concrete sunshades
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curving ramp that passes through the building → open plan studio spaces → pilotis elevating parts of the structure → |
| opened |
1963
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| owner |
Harvard University
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| purpose |
to integrate visual arts into the life of the university
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| style |
Modernist architecture
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| uniqueClaim |
only building in North America designed by Le Corbusier
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| usedFor |
academic instruction in visual arts
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film screenings → public art exhibitions → |
| yearCompleted |
1963
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| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
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name |
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Le Corbusier
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