Tag: Purity
“Passages” and an Art Monster’s Fierce Purity
The suffering in Ira Sachs’s remarkable film results not from cruelty but from truth.
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An Architect Who’s Known for Aesthetic Purity and Counts Kanye West as a Client
THE MONOLITHIC VILLA in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains an hour south of Marrakesh, Morocco, designed by Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty of the Paris-based architectural firm Studio KO as a French client’s holiday house, embodies contemporary Brutalism tinged by the Bauhaus. Shorn of ornament and minimally furnished, the fortresslike vacation home is all jutting red sandstone angles and expanses of glass, opening onto the cinnabar-hued landscape. But turn a corner and there looms what the architects refer to