2. • Original name : Charles Édouard Jeanneret Gris
• Birth date: October 6 ,1887
• Birth Place: LaChaux-de-fonds , Switzerland
• Influence: His family’s Calvinism ,Love for arts and enthusiasm for the Jura
Mountains.
• Second son of Édouard Jeanneret (Dial painter) and Madame Jeanneret
(teacher).
• At thirteen , Le Corbusier abandoned matchmaking, and continued his studies in
art and decoration , with the intention of becoming a painter.
• Le Corbusier was pioneer in his studies of modern high design.(i.e. he always
tried to practice or introduce new methods taught to him in his works)
LIFE STORY
3. • Established a new artistic movement , PURISM in collaboration with cubist
painter Amedee Ozenfant .
• Between 1918 -1922 he concentrated on the purist theory and painting.
• Le Corbusier began his own architectural practice in 1922 with his cousin Pierre
Jeanneret. (worked together for 50 years)
• Dedicated most of his efforts to the more influential, and lucrative , discipline of
painting.
• Proposed the First city plan- The contemporary city.
• Proposed two housing types: Vaulted Maison Manol and Maison Citrohan.
LE CORBUSIER
6. FIVE POINTS OF ARCHITECTURE
• Lifting the bulk of the
structure off the ground
supporting by pilotis.
• A free façade.
• An open floor plan.
• Long strips of ribbon
window providing
maximum illumination.
• The roof garden.
9. Centre Le Corbusier
• The centre Le Corbusier or Heidi Weber Museum is an
art(dedicated to the works of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
• It is the last building designed by Le Corbusier marking a radical
change of his achievement of using concrete and stone , framed in
steel and glass, in 1960s created as a signpost for the future.
• Le Corbusier made intensive use of prefabricated steel elements
combined with multi- coloured enamelled plates fitted to the
central core and above the complex he designed a free –floating
roof to keep the house protected from rain and the sun.
10. IDEAS
• Use of golden ratio for the scale of architectural proportion.
• Use of the human measurements, Fibonacci series and the double unit.
• Placed system of harmony and proportion at the centre of his design
philosophy.
FURNITURE
• Type-needs
• Type-furniture
• Human-limb objects
13. LE CORBUSIER FRAMING CHANDIGARH
• Le Corbusier was invited by Jawaharlal Nehru to design the city in 1950.
• Chandigarh(capital of Punjab)
• Started in 1951 until his death in 1965.
Design:
• Grid iron plan
• Hierarchy of movement from highways to pedestrian walkways.
• Metaphor of a human being -
Head - Capital Complex
Heart - Commercial centre.
Arms- Academic and leisure facilities.
