CORB

Like many European architects who visited and wrote about New York, Corb focused on Gotham's dramatic and towering commercial skyscrapers.

Four hours later Corb and Jared awoke to a wicked wind.

ACTORS Francis Tucker and Phil Corb stripped off their panto costumes for Naked Liverpool.

Catalan's quicksands extend to a plethora of short blunt words that look suspiciously like subjects of heated disputes in playing Scrabble: corb, cort, eben, foc, fus, gal, grat, palp, rebot, tard, and tron.

In November 1956, just a few months after the fabled "This Is Tomorrow" exhibition in London first brought Pop to public attention, the Smithsons published a short essay that included this little poem: "Gropius wrote a book on grain silos, / Le Corbusier one on aeroplanes, / And Charlotte Perriand brought a new object to the office every morning; / But today we collect ads." Of course, Gropius, Corb, and Perriand were hardly naive about mass media; the point is polemical, not historical: They, the old protagonists of modern design, were cued by functional things, while we, the new celebrants of Pop culture, look to "the throw-away object and the pop-package" for inspiration.

Corb during training at the Construction Battalion Center, Port Hueneme, Calif.

HARRISBURG -- He's a long way from home, but for alt-country musician Corb Lund of Alberta, Canada, sometimes home is where his tours take him.

For decades, it was a little-known fact that Corb was a prolific photographer.

Corb Marie, a simple steak restaurant in Pollensa, Majorca - a place we return to again and again.

Photographs, drawings and commissioned models tell the stories behind a clutch of exemplar projects, among them Sir Owen Williams' Sainsbury's factory in London's Blackfriars (1934-36), Johannes Brinkman and Leendert van der Vlugt's Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam 11925-31] and Corb's Usine Duval (1946-51], as well as the socially conscious shoe manufacturer Tomas Bata's Utopian workers' town.

Architect and designer Mike Corb discusses his approach to designing schools with SHALAKA PARADKAR