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Teach Le Corbusier’s Modernist Architecture to Your K-12 Students w/ Collage & Timed Drawings (Ep. 2)

Learn how to bring the artist Le Corbusier to your K-12 art classroom! Start with a brief crash course of background information about the artist and their artwork. Le Corbusier is a Swiss renowned architect who pioneered Modernism. He used new technologies such as steel and concrete to reimagine geometric structures with open floor plans. 

Gain practical and engaging ways to bring Le Corbusier to your elementary and secondary art students. Joe’s students search for geometric shapes and demonstrate positive and negative shapes through collage. Harris introduces minimalism through speedy timed drawing challenges and modular housing designs.

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Lindsey McGinnis

Lindsey McGinnis is AOEU’s Media Content Manager and a former high school art educator. She is passionately equipping art teachers to be successful in their classrooms and firmly believes that art is a safe place for students to explore and process the challenging topics and concepts around them.

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