This document discusses the work and urban planning concepts of architect Le Corbusier. It outlines his principle of planning, including the Ville Contemporaine and La Ville radieuse models which proposed centralized cities with strict zoning, abundant green space, and prioritization of vehicles. It also describes Le Corbusier's planning of Chandigarh, India and notes both praise for its architecture and landscaping, as well as criticism of his ideas for being monotonous and car-dependent with class-based housing separation.
DOXIADIS
HUMAN SETTLEMENT AND PLANING
CONSTANTINOS APOSTOLOU DOXIADIS
THEORY OF EKISTICS
Minor shells- Micro-settlements- Meso-settlements- Macro-settlements-Ekistics Logarithm Scale:-
BY EVOLUNITARY PHASE
BY FACTOR AND DISCIPLINE
CASE STUDY: ISLAMABAD
Master Plan
Comparison of Land cover
CONCEPT OF CITY PLANNING
ROAD NETWORK & HIERARCHY
ROAD NETWORK & TRANSPORT
HOUSES AND STREET PATTERN
GRID SYSTEM
CURRENT CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CITY
Life and Career with works of Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis. Theory of Urban Design presentation - CA Doxiadis : Ekistics theory, Islamabad master plan, Aspra Spitia introduction, Name of books and journals with bibliography
DOXIADIS
HUMAN SETTLEMENT AND PLANING
CONSTANTINOS APOSTOLOU DOXIADIS
THEORY OF EKISTICS
Minor shells- Micro-settlements- Meso-settlements- Macro-settlements-Ekistics Logarithm Scale:-
BY EVOLUNITARY PHASE
BY FACTOR AND DISCIPLINE
CASE STUDY: ISLAMABAD
Master Plan
Comparison of Land cover
CONCEPT OF CITY PLANNING
ROAD NETWORK & HIERARCHY
ROAD NETWORK & TRANSPORT
HOUSES AND STREET PATTERN
GRID SYSTEM
CURRENT CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CITY
Life and Career with works of Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis. Theory of Urban Design presentation - CA Doxiadis : Ekistics theory, Islamabad master plan, Aspra Spitia introduction, Name of books and journals with bibliography
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years.
Wrightt believed in designing in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called the best all-time work of American architecture. As a founder of organic architecture, Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing three generations of architects worldwide through his works.
There is a train station and a few office and apartment buildings in Broadacre City. All important transport is done by automobile, and the pedestrian can exist safely only within the confines of the one-acre (0.40-hectare) plots where most of the population dwells.
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years.
Wrightt believed in designing in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called the best all-time work of American architecture. As a founder of organic architecture, Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing three generations of architects worldwide through his works.
There is a train station and a few office and apartment buildings in Broadacre City. All important transport is done by automobile, and the pedestrian can exist safely only within the confines of the one-acre (0.40-hectare) plots where most of the population dwells.
A brief description on Le Corbusier's life, design philosophies & some projects including a detailed case study. I recommend viewers to download the presentation and then view it bcoz many slides (slide 12) are apparently useless without animation!!
- Rakesh Samaddar
Dept. of Architecture
IIT Kharagpur
India
LE COBUSIER, BACKGROUNG OF CITY DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY 20th CENTURY, THE GRID CONCEPT, Contemporary City, Radiant City, THE RADIANT CITY CONCEPT, CONCEPT OF RADIANT CITY, HOUSING TOWERS
LE CORBUSIER, whose real name was Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, was a Swiss-French architect, urban planner, painter, writer, and one of the pioneers of modern architecture. He was born on October 6, 1887, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city in the Neuchâtel canton of Switzerland, and he passed away on August 27, 1965, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France.
Early Life:
Le Corbusier was born into a family of watch engravers in Switzerland.
He began studying at the École d'Art at La Chaux-de-Fonds at the age of 13, where he learned art, decoration, and enameling.
and analysis 5 points of architecture. .
PUP 420 Theory of Urban Design Historical Perspecti.docxwoodruffeloisa
PUP 420: Theory of
Urban Design
Historical Perspectives:
Siena, Italy
Part of understanding the basics of
urban design is to understand the
history of designing our cities.
Two basic city forms – organic and
geometric – emerged very early in
Western civilizations.
Organic cities are likely to have been
the more ancient of the two, having
arisen through chance and
accretion. Accretion means that
these settlements grew where paths
became streets, and villages
merged into towns and then cities.
Organic cities developed around geographic features that were
crucial to trade or defense, such as regional crossroads, safe
harbors, river crossings, access to mountain passes, and so
forth.
Miletus, origin of Miletian plan
Palace Quarter, Babylon
The geometric form, on the other
hand, was planned – purposely
and self-consciously designed.
This is where we get our grid
system, where streets are at right
angles and form blocks.
Most early geometric cities had
specific places for religion and
commerce. And most early
societies were concerned about
controlling access to their city for
the purpose of defense.
Historical Perspectives:
Historical Perspectives:
Piazza del Campo, Siena
Villingen, Germany
The Middle Ages were shaped by
warfare and military considerations,
leading to things like building city
walls.
Public spaces became associated
with religious structures and, later,
commerce, as the church plaza
became the marketplace.
During the Middle Ages, we also
started building secular public
plazas – these are plazas that are
not associated with a church or
religion. Piazza del Campo in
Sienna was one of the first of these
secular plazas.
Historical Perspectives:
Pienza, Italy
Palmanova, Italy
Next, we move ahead to the
Renaissance, which was roughly
the 15th – 17th Centuries. (There’s
no consensus about the exact
years.)
During this time, classical architecture
and planning served as precedents,
as neo-classical architecture began
to be built. This was stemming from
a renewed interest in art,
architecture, literature, and so forth.
This coincides with the emerging
“humanist” view – meaning that
people were looking at Ancient
Rome and Ancient Greece for
inspiration and seeing the value in
classical learning.
Historical Perspectives:
Pope Sixtus V’s Plan of Rome
The Baroque period was roughly the
16th – 17th Centuries, sometimes
grouped into the Renaissance time
period.
During the Baroque period, we built
straight avenues with clear lines of
sight. Our cities also had radial and
diagonal patterns defined by focal
points. This is largely because the
planners were military engineers,
interested in efficiency.
During this time, cities were also
starting to be confronted with the
challenges of swelling populations –
and the consequences of this on
health, light, and air.
Historical Perspectives:
Paris, France
Baro ...
PUP 420 Theory of Urban Design Historical PerspectiTakishaPeck109
PUP 420: Theory of
Urban Design
Historical Perspectives:
Siena, Italy
Part of understanding the basics of
urban design is to understand the
history of designing our cities.
Two basic city forms – organic and
geometric – emerged very early in
Western civilizations.
Organic cities are likely to have been
the more ancient of the two, having
arisen through chance and
accretion. Accretion means that
these settlements grew where paths
became streets, and villages
merged into towns and then cities.
Organic cities developed around geographic features that were
crucial to trade or defense, such as regional crossroads, safe
harbors, river crossings, access to mountain passes, and so
forth.
Miletus, origin of Miletian plan
Palace Quarter, Babylon
The geometric form, on the other
hand, was planned – purposely
and self-consciously designed.
This is where we get our grid
system, where streets are at right
angles and form blocks.
Most early geometric cities had
specific places for religion and
commerce. And most early
societies were concerned about
controlling access to their city for
the purpose of defense.
Historical Perspectives:
Historical Perspectives:
Piazza del Campo, Siena
Villingen, Germany
The Middle Ages were shaped by
warfare and military considerations,
leading to things like building city
walls.
Public spaces became associated
with religious structures and, later,
commerce, as the church plaza
became the marketplace.
During the Middle Ages, we also
started building secular public
plazas – these are plazas that are
not associated with a church or
religion. Piazza del Campo in
Sienna was one of the first of these
secular plazas.
Historical Perspectives:
Pienza, Italy
Palmanova, Italy
Next, we move ahead to the
Renaissance, which was roughly
the 15th – 17th Centuries. (There’s
no consensus about the exact
years.)
During this time, classical architecture
and planning served as precedents,
as neo-classical architecture began
to be built. This was stemming from
a renewed interest in art,
architecture, literature, and so forth.
This coincides with the emerging
“humanist” view – meaning that
people were looking at Ancient
Rome and Ancient Greece for
inspiration and seeing the value in
classical learning.
Historical Perspectives:
Pope Sixtus V’s Plan of Rome
The Baroque period was roughly the
16th – 17th Centuries, sometimes
grouped into the Renaissance time
period.
During the Baroque period, we built
straight avenues with clear lines of
sight. Our cities also had radial and
diagonal patterns defined by focal
points. This is largely because the
planners were military engineers,
interested in efficiency.
During this time, cities were also
starting to be confronted with the
challenges of swelling populations –
and the consequences of this on
health, light, and air.
Historical Perspectives:
Paris, France
Baro ...
He was an architect, designer, urbanist, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities
The presentation covers general details about architect , Villa Sovoye, Centre Le Corbusier and few other works
1. “Architecture is the learned game,
correct and magnificent, of forms
assembled in the light.”
-Le Corbusier
2.
3. Modern
Movement
• Modernism describes
a collection of cultural
movements of the late
nineteenth and early
twentieth century
• Modernism is reductive,
striving towards
abstraction and purity
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6. Backgroun
d
• Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
• One of the most prominent
architects of the 20th century.
• Self-proclaimed town-planner
• His building designs are certainly
embedded and celebrated in
architectural history
• His critics have been
considerably less flattering in
their comments on his city
planning.
8. • No matter how open and green, cities should be frankly
urban
• Density itself is not a problem
• Slums exist because of the failure to provide the proper
surrounding for high density living
• He protests against strict functionalism
12. • Built on the grounds
where the vernacular
European cities
demolished
• Re arranged key features
of Ville Contemporine
• Contain effective means
of transportation
• Abundance of green
space and sunlight
Theatres
Gardens
Sports Fields
Squares
Restaurants
17. • One of the most significant
urban planning experiments of
the 20th century.
• It is the only one of the
numerous urban planning
schemes of Le Corbusier to
have actually been executed.
• The site has some of his
greatest architectural creations.
• Became a symbol of planned
urbanism.
18. • Famous for its landscaping as for its architectural
ambience.
Most of the buildings are in pure, cubical form,
geometrically subdivided with emphasis on proportion,
scale and detail
• shape of the city plan is a rectangular shape with a grid
iron pattern for the fast traffic roads
• The city plan was conceived as post war ‘Garden City’
wherein vertical and high rise buildings were ruled out,
keeping in view the socio economic-conditions and
living habits of the people.
19. Positives and Negatives
• Le Corbusier’s architectural models are well-defined and
generally accepted, his urban ideas have not been so neatly
packaged and disobey chronological marking out, simply
because there is so much overlap
• frequently blamed for the monotonous, single use zoning and
car-dependent developments immediately after the Second
World War.
• Boring
• Class based conception of life – different classes being
separately housed
• Doubts about the scale and degree of centralization
20. • Robert Hughes speaks of Le Corbusier's city planning
in his series The Shock of the New
"...the car would abolish the human street, and
possibly the human foot. Some people would
have aero planes too. The one thing no one
would have is a place to bump into each other,
walk the dog, strut, one of the hundred
random things that people do ... being
random was loathed by Le Corbusier ... its
inhabitants surrender their freedom of
movement to the omnipresent architect."
Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) is an unrealized urban masterplan by Le Corbusier, first presented in 1924 and published in a book of the same name in 1933. Designed to contain effective means of transportation, as well as an abundance of green space and sunlight, Le Corbusier’s city of the future would not only provide residents with a better lifestyle, but would contribute to creating a better society. Though radical, strict and nearly totalitarian in its order, symmetry and standardization, Le Corbusier’s proposed principles had an extensive influence on modern urban planning and led to the development of new high-density housing typologies.
