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Philips Pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels, Le Corbusier with Iannis Xenakis and Varèse’s Poème électronique, is a temporary electronic-spatial exhibit

At Brussels Expo 58 the Philips Pavilion, a tent of hyperbolic paraboloids, ran Le Corbusier’s Poème électronique with Varèse’s tape and Xenakis’s geometry. Education here is a public electronic-spatial poem, demolished after the fair — a completed temporary work, not an unbuilt plan. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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At Brussels Expo 58 the Philips Pavilion, a tent of hyperbolic paraboloids, ran Le Corbusier’s Poème électronique with Varèse’s tape and Xenakis’s geometry. He did not found Philips. Education here is a public electronic-spatial poem, demolished after the fair — a completed temporary work, not an unbuilt plan. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (opens in a new tab) (Museum of Modern Art).

Context

Xenakis also worked at La Tourette. World’s fairs as industrial exhibits neighbour Disney’s 1964 (other person). Later recordings of the Poème are reception.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. La Tourette’s glass with Xenakis is a separate building. Mixed effects of Philips Pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels, Le Corbusier with Iannis Xenakis and Varèse’s Poème électronique, is a temporary electronic-spatial exhibit are separate paths.

Why it matters

A fairground electronic poem is an education path. High confidence on 1958. Demolition after the expo is the brief, not a lost Unité.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Le Corbusier

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He conceived the Poème; Xenakis calculated the hyperbolic shell; Varèse made the sound. Complex three-author exhibit for Philips.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)Museum of Modern Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fondation Le Corbusier — English portalFondation Le Corbusier · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Fondation Le Corbusier independently lists the Philips Pavilion. MoMA independently historicises the Poème électronique. Britannica independently notes the 1958 collaboration. No unique 1958 visitor-conversion series is invented.

Established: 1958 Philips Pavilion as his (with Xenakis/Varèse). Not established: a unique attendance census. 17 April 1958 Expo opening neighbourhood. Not La Tourette as this title.

Shared responsibility is part of Philips Pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels, Le Corbusier with Iannis Xenakis and Varèse’s Poème électronique, is a temporary electronic-spatial exhibit. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1958-04-17 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLe Corbusier
  2. contributed toFactPhilips Pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels, Le Corbusier with Iannis Xenakis and Varèse’s Poème électronique, is a temporary electronic-spatial exhibit
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Philips Pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels, Le Corbusier with Iannis Xenakis and Varèse’s Poème électronique, is a temporary electronic-spatial exhibit. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-philips-pavilion

https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-philips-pavilion

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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