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September 18, 2026Visual Studies

Framing modernity: gender, vision, and colonial ideology in Le Corbusier’s visual rhetoric

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HDHasan Doğan

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Critical visual analysis reveals gendered and colonial domination in Le Corbusier’s drawings from 1920 to 1940, highlighting how modern architecture intertwined aesthetics with imperial power.

Key Points

  • To investigate how Le Corbusier’s drawings from the colonial period construct gendered and colonial ideologies within early twentieth-century modernist visual rhetoric.
  • Applied iconographic and iconological analytical methods grounded in feminist and postcolonial theory.
  • Analyzed architectural sketches and drawings produced between 1920 and 1940, focusing on depictions of Algeria, North Africa, and Latin America.
  • Demonstrated that Le Corbusier instrumentalized the female body as an architectural standard for spatial order and purity.
  • Identified visual fusions of feminized bodies and conquered landscapes in regional sketches, linking modern aesthetic abstraction to colonial regimes of domination.

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Hasan Doğan (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aad0bc6de0393d728b8a30ahttps://doi.org/10.1080/1472586x.2026.2728641
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