Introduction :Overlooking Cosmos - Noguchi’s taste, Le Corbusier's ambition Why do we desire "minimal space”?
Isamu Noguchi set out to create an “art of the garden” to communicate with thehuman body, nature, and weather--as an alternative to modeled sculpture, thedominant method of sculpture in the 20th century.
However, as a maker of interiors, Noguchi’s taste tended towards thehandcrafted: simple, primitive, and small. A scholar (call him Mr. I) suggested
that this stemmed from his interest in “Zen". Is this true?
Le Corbusier always wanted a "small house, small space" as a base from whichto venture forth to the sea to swim or to dance.
In his book “Hôjôkishiki,” Yoshie Hotta writes that Kamo no Chōumei dreamed ofhaving a small space that would be like a window onto “the whole world,” evenas--under frenetic circumstances: war and natural disaster leaving corpses in thestreets of Kyoto--he pretended to be a recluse. Isn’t it natural that Takeshiro
Matsuura, who is known as an explorer, would also want a small space?
To spend one’s life seizing the world is reckless; it requires a solid base. The
enormousness of the world turns us inside out, causes us to desire a smallcosmos.

Ryu Niimi

The Villa “Le Lac” is a little gem of ingenuity and functionalism – anarchitectural manifesto where one can find the key ideas of the program
developed by Le Corbusier during the 1920s for his famous “whitehouses”. This laboratory of modern ideas is one of the architect's most
personal and inventive works.

Opening hours | 26 May 17.00 to 24.00

Saturday and Sunday from 2 pm to 5 pm.

Outside opening hours, visits on request are possible by appointment for groups ofminimum 12 people according to our general conditions.

Entrance fee |Adults CHF 12.- / Students CHF 10.- / Children CHF 6.( no debit or credit cards )Address |Villa «Le Lac»
Route de Lavaux 21
CH-1802 Corseaux http://www.villalelac.ch

Director,
OPAM | Oita Prefectural Art Museum

Kamo no Chōmei (1153 or 1155–1216 ) was a Japanese author, poet (in the waka form),and essayist. He witnessed a series of natural and social disasters, and, having lost his
political backing, was passed over for promotion within the Shinto shrine associated with hisfamily. He decided to turn his back on society, took Buddhist vows, and became a hermit,living outside the capital. This was somewhat unusual for the time, when those who turned
their backs on the world usually joined monasteries. Along with the poet-priest Saigyō he isrepresentative of the literary recluses of his time, and his celebrated essay Hōjōki ("AnAccount of a Ten-Foot-Square Hut") is representative of the genre known as "recluseliterature" (sōan bungaku).
Yoshie Hotta (1918-1998 ) was born in Toyama Takaoka, Japan as YoshiMamoru Hotta.
He was a writer, known for Hôjôkishiki and Hiroba no kodoku (1953).

* folding cosmos
http://www.foldingcosmos.org

CONDE HOUSE co ltd.

http://www.condehouse.co.jp

Fondation Le Corbusier

http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr

The Noguchi Museum
http://www.noguchi.org

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe
http://miesbcn.com

FUJIFILM Corporation
ICU Yuasa Hachiro Memorial Museum

http://subsites.icu.ac.jp/yuasa_museum/index_e.html

Takeshiro Matsuura Memorial Museum* folding cosmosIsamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most important andcritically acclaimed sculptors. Through a lifetime of artistic experimentation, he createdsculptures, gardens, furniture and lighting designs, ceramics, architecture, and set designs.
His work, at once subtle and bold, traditional and modern, set a new standard for thereintegration of the arts.

Villa « Le Lac » Le Corbusier

MIWAKO KURASHIMAMUSEUM AT NIGHT

26 MAY 2018, Saturday
every weekend until
24 JUNE 2018, Sunday