To what extent did Le Corbusier’s Couvent Sainte Marie de La Tourette influence postwar architecture? Surely, it’s hard to say, as there have been countless reinterpretations and coy copies—some good, others not so much. An exhibition at Texas A&M University’s Wright Gallery centers this canonical project, and others which followed its direction.
Carbon Copy is a solo show with work by Leonid Furmansky, an Austin-based photographer. At Wright Gallery, black and white photography is installed adjacent to scale models built by Texas A&M architecture students under the tutelage of James Michael Tate, a Texas A&M architecture professor, who is a co-curator.
The exhibition builds upon years
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