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

Date: 1958

## The fact

At Brussels Expo 58 the Philips Pavilion, a tent of hyperbolic paraboloids, ran [Le Corbusier](/people/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/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

## Context

Xenakis also worked at La Tourette. World’s fairs as industrial exhibits neighbour [Disney](/people/walt-disney)’s 1964 (other person). Later recordings of the Poème are reception. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

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.

## Evidence and sources

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. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

Official or archival record: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal (https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/; Fondation Le Corbusier).

## Significance

A fairground electronic poem is an education path. High confidence on 1958. Demolition after the expo is the brief, not a lost Unité. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

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. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

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.

## People

- Le Corbusier: https://factrail.ai/people/le-corbusier

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.moma.org/artists/3426
- https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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