British artist Graham Little creates abstract modular sculptures which heavily reference modernist architecture but unlike the austere originals Little’s forms verge on the ridiculous. Little decorates the façade with a cocktail of patterns and colours which he takes from luxury fashion prints.

In Purism, a manifesto co-written in 1920 with Amédée Ozenfant Le Corbusier created three ’scales’ of colour: the ‘major scale’, the ‘dymamic scale’, and the ‘transitional scale’.

Major Scale
Ochre yellows
red,
earths,
white,
black,
ultramarine blue

This scale is ’strong’ and ’stable’; it gives ‘unity’ and ‘balance’; these colours are ‘constructive’.
These colours were used in Le Corbusier’s 1925 Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau.

Dymanic Scale
Citron yellow,
oranges,
vermilions and other ‘animated, ‘agitated’ colours.

Transitional Scale
the madders,
emerald green,
and all the lakes

These colours were ’simply not of construction’.

These concrete ears built in the1920’s and 30’s as listening devices to detect incoming enemy airplanes. These reflectors fell into disuse with the advent of radar and remain as historic relics of an auditory past.