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10 Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, was a pioneering modern architect, urban planner, writer and designer. He was dedicated to improving living conditions in crowded cities through innovative urban planning and architecture. Le Corbusier helped establish the principles of modern architecture through projects like the Villa Savoye, which embodied his five points of architecture. He was also influential in the design and planning of the city of Chandigarh in India.
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- 2. Le Corbusier • Charles-ÉdouardJeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier was an architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. • Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderns (CIAM). • It was Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1929–31) that summed up the five points of architecture that he had explained in L'Esprit Nouveau and the book Vers une architecture, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s.
- 6. Purism was anattempt to restore regularity in a war-torn France post World War I. Unlike what they saw as 'decorative' fragmentation of objects in Cubism, Purism proposed a style of painting where elements were represented as robust simplified forms with minimal detail, while embracing technology and the machine.
- 7. Purism was anattempt to restore regularity in a war-torn France post World War I. Unlike what they saw as 'decorative' fragmentation of objects in Cubism, Purism proposed a style of painting where elements were represented as robust simplified forms with minimal detail, while embracing technology and the machine.
- 9. Le Corbusier –the Modulor •Le Corbusier explicitly used the Golden Mean or Golden Ratio in his Modulor system for the scale of architectural proportion. He saw this system as a continuation of others who used the proportions of the human body to improve the appearance and function of architecture. In addition to the golden ratio, Le Corbusier based the system on human measurements, Fibonacci numbers, and the double unit.
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- 25. • First manifestationof an environment suited for modern life • Influenced by his long term interest in urban planning • Merseille, France
- 36. Completed in 1954 FormalName: The Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut
- 37. The original Notre Dame duHaut, destroyed in World War II
- 38. Chapel at Ronchamp •Built by Le Corbusier • Completed in 1954 • Formal Name: The Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut
- 41. • Original chapelwas destroyed in WWII • Commissioned by the Association de l'Oeuvre Notre Dame du Haut • Two Entrances • Three Chapels inside • Strayed from “Machine Age” architecture because the site was difficult to access
- 44. • Made mostlyof concrete and stone • Reminiscent of original chapel
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- 54. Chandigarh is acity in Northern India that serves as the capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. It was the first planned city in India, post-independence, in 1947 and was known internationally for its architecture and urban design. The city was primarily designed by Le Corbusier, but it also has projects de- signed by architects such as Pierre Jeanneret, Jane Drew, and Maxwell Fry.
- 55. The Open Hand(La Main Ouverte) is a recurring motif in Le Corbusier's architecture, a sign for him of "peace and reconciliation. It is open to give and open to receive." It represents the give and take of ideas.
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- 58. The Palace ofAssembly Building
- 61. The Capitol HighCourt Building
- 62. Gandhi Bhawan atPunjab University This auditorium hall sits in the middle of a pond of water, and was designed by Paul Jeanneret. Today it also houses a substantial collection of books on Gandhi.
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