Le corbusier

Knowing the person…
Born: October 6, 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds,
Switzerland
Died: August 27, 1965, Roquebrune-Cap-
Martin, France
Education: La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School
Artwork: Still Life Filled with Space, Unités
d'Habitation de Meaux
Awards: Royal Gold Medal, AIA Gold Medal
The home should be the treasure
chest of living. -Le Corbusier
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Charles - Édouard Jeanneret - Gris, who was
better known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-
French architect, designer, painter, urban
planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of
what is now called modern architecture.
A house is a machine for living in.
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 Born on October 6, 1887, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland he
received an early art education there.
 He studied modern building construction under Auguste Perret in
Paris. He also worked with the German architect Josef Hoffmann.
 In 1922 he went into partnership in Paris as an architect with his
cousin, the engineer Pierre Jeanneret, and adopted his mother's
maiden name, Le Corbusier.
LIFE HISTORY

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 Le Corbusier become chief Town Planner of La-Rochella in 1947 and
was nominated Indian Govt. Architectural advisor for the construction
of Chandigarh in 1951.
 Received honorary doctorate of the Swiss federal Institute of Tech.
Zurich in 1955
 He died on August 27,while swimming at Cap Martim 1965.
LIFE HISTORY

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Some points one must know…
 During world war he returned to his hometown in Switzerland and worked
on architectural theories, modern construction methods and designed
single family houses.
 In 1920 he changed his name to Le corbusier.
 In 1922, he established his architectural practice in Paris at 35 Rue de
serves, with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, a partnership that lasted until 1940.
 He became a French citizen in 1930.

‘I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster
and leaves less room for lies.’
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‘I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster
and leaves less room for lies.’
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Philosophy
Le Corbusier placed systems of harmony and
proportion at the centre of his design philosophy,
and his faith in the mathematical order of the
universe was closely bound to the golden section
and the Fibonacci series, which he described as
"rhythms apparent to the eye and clear in their
relations with one another.
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“A house is a machine to live in”
 His extreme theory says that the so-called architecture does not exist, only
functions exist.
 This is aimed towards precise total environment providing ventilation, sound
insulation, sunshades in summer.
 It suggests that basis of design for modern living is to be found in efficiency
and economy of modern design, which relied o the skills of architect rather
than the luxury and individuality of traditional home made by an artist.
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A house is a machine to live in…

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“A house is a machine to live in”
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Inspired by the human body proportions made
by Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci and Leon
Battista Alberti, Le corbusier made Golden ratio
for scale and proportion. This is well exemplified
in Villa Stein in Garches of 1927.
Modular Theory

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Urban Concept
He brought efficient ways to solve the serious
uncontrolled problems of Paris city.
He expounded theories on multi level roads,
skyscrapers, terrace gardens, separate
expressway and walking lanes.
He designed urban plan for the cities of Paris
and Chandigarh.

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Purism Movement
Le corbusier rejected Cubism principles and followed an artistic movement called
PURISM
which is interested in utopian vision of art and modern living.
Purism believed in order, harmony and rationalism and insisted that art should
embrace new industrial world to make object made by machine.
It preferred cool colours, glossy finish and clean lines.
He worked for purist theory from 1918 to 1922.

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Purism Movement

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Purism Movement
Notre Dame du haut
Ranchamp, France
Villa Savoye
Poissy, France

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Le corbusier used the French word ‘Beton brut’
meaning raw concrete to describe the
construction of his rough concrete structures.
Rugged R.C.C construction designed led to the
Brutalism.
Brutalism

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Geisel Library
California, USA
Architecture
style:
BRUTALISM

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FIVE POINTS PHILOSOPHY
 PILOTIS – The replacement of supporting walls by a grid of reinforced concrete
columns that bears the load of the structure is the basis of the new aesthetic. Ex:
Villa Savoye, France
THE FREE DESIGN OF FAÇADE – By separating the exterior of the building from
its structural function the façade becomes free.
 THE HORIZONTAL WINDOW – The façade can be cut along its entire length to
allow rooms to be lit equally.
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 ROOF GARDENS – The flat roof can be utilized for a domestic purpose while
also providing essential protection to the concrete roof.
 THE FREE DESIGNING OF THE GROUND PLAN – The absence of
supporting walls means that the house is unrestrained in its internal usage.

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For what he is known…
The City
‘ CHANDIGARH
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In India
Open to give; Open to take
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Each sector: 800m x 1200m

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‘V7 Concept’
for the city Chandigarh
 Le Corbusier had identified the motor car as the central factor of
modern town planning.
 The 7 Vs act in the town plan as the bloodstream, the lymph system
and the respiratory system act in biology.

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7 Categories of Roads include
 V1 - These include National Trunk road, comes from Delhi on the one side and
from shimla on the other, also connecting from Lahore.
 V2 - Major vehicular artirials like Madhya Marg, Dakshin Marg, Jan Marg and
Himalaya Marg.
 V3 - Each sector is surrounded on all four sides by V3. This is a road reserved
exclusively for the fast moving traffic, no doors open on these V3, whose total length
is nearly 25 miles.

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7 Categories of Roads include
 V4 - Market road inside the sectors.
 V5 - These are the curved roads, go inside the sectors
and intersect the V4 roads at two points.
 V6 - Access roads to Properties.
 V7 - Cycle tracks.

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 Total road length = 1445 KM.
 Total %age of road length = 25.94 (v1 to v7 rods).
 Total %age of major roads = 14.75 (on city level v2 & v3).
 Cost of v2 & v3 roads = 25.30 Rs./Sq.Ft.
 Cost of v6 roads = 15.20 Rs./Sq. ft.
Add to your knowledge…

The City ‘CHANDIGARH’
• It was historic decision when Government of
Punjab decided to build a capital of its own after
Lahore. They approached Le Corbusier for
designing the city, besides Corbusier three other
architects were engaged, Maxwell Fry, Jane Drew
and Pierre Jeanneret.
• The site chosen for the Capital lies at the foot of
the Himalayas.
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 The new capital will eventually have 500,000 inhabitants.
 Chandigarh is a bold experiment in modern civic design.
 In Chandigarh, the Corbusier system of the self supporting
neighbourhood unit known as sector has worked very well.
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Le Corbusier’s original concept about the capital was to
consist of
 Assembly
 The secretariat
 High court
 Governor's Palace
all interrelated by careful landscaping, and all are
dominated by the ‘Monument of the open hand’-a
gigantic sculptural symbol of the aspirations embodied
in the design.
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Assembly Hall
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 Palace of Assembly is a legislative assembly designed by noted architect Le
Corbusier and located in Chandigarh, India.
 It is part of The Capitol Complex comprises three buildings — Legislative
Assembly, Secretariat and High Court.
 After the partition of Punjab, in 1947 following the independence of India, the
divided Punjab required a new capital as Lahore was now in Pakistan. Thus Le
Corbusier was commissioned by first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru to
build a new city of Chandigarh.

Assembly Hall
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The brief for the design was a city "unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbol
of the nation's faith in the future". Subsequently Corbusier and his team built not just
large assembly, and high court building, but all major buildings in the city, and down
to door handles in public offices. Today many of the building are considered
recognised as modernist masterpieces, though most are in state of neglect. In 2010,
chairs from the assembly building were auctioned in London, when diplomatic
attempt stop the sale failed, as the items were "condemned" deemed unfit for use.

The Secretariat building
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The Secretariat building is a long, horizontal concrete slab form, 254 meters long and 42
meters high, and marks the edge of the Capital Complex on the left side.
The building is composed of six eight-story block divided by expansion joints and
measures over 800 feet long, bookended by two sculptural ramps providing vertical
circulation throughout the facilities’ levels..
Completed in 1952, the Secretariat building functions as the headquarters of the
Punjab and Haryana municipal governments and is the largest of Corbusier’s three
completed administrative buildings..
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 The massive, horizontal complex is comprised of 8 stories of rough-cast
concrete.
 The building has notable similarities with Corbusier’s Marseille block and
had an equally lofty goal: to revolutionize the modern office building.
 The Secretariat was among the first buildings designed as a “healthy
building” with careful attention paid to natural lighting, ventilation, and
organizational efficiency
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The High Court
 It has a rhythmic arcade created by a parasol-like roof,
which shades the entire building.
 Keeping in view the special dignity of the judges special
entrance created for them through a high portico resting
on three giant pylons painted in bright colors much in the
tradition of the Buland Darwaza of Fatehpur- Sikri, with its
awesome scale.
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The High Court
 It is an enormous vaulted structure capped by a
concrete roof umbrella that shelters a four-storey,
unwalled entrance lobby lined with concrete ramps
and topped by arches. To both sides of this lobby
are court rooms on several levels.
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MUSEUM OF AHMEDABAD
 Architect -Le Corbusier
 Location -Ahmedabad, India
 Date -1953 to 1957
 Building Type –Museum
 Construction System –Concrete
 Climate – Desert
 Context – Urban
 Style - Modern
Notes:
Powerful block massing on columns, with internal ramps and courtyards.

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MUSEUM OF AHMEDABAD
 Ahmedabad museum stands upon
pilotis at 7m centres and encloses an
open court from which access to the
exhibition is gained.
 The main level is entered through a
series of squares (with sides of 14 m)
arranged in spiral shape.

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MUSEUM OF AHMEDABAD
 The roof garden contains 45
pools, each fifty sq. mt. in area
and surrounded with vegetation,
which serve to create a cool
atmosphere.

I prefer drawing to talking . Drawing is
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Moving to Outside
INDIA

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The chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp (French: Chapelle Notre-
Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp), completed in 1954, is one of the finest
examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier and one of
the most important examples of twentieth-century religious architecture. The
chapel is a working religious building and is under the guardianship of the
private foundation Association de l’Oeuvre de Notre-Dame du Haut. It attracts
80,000 visitors each year.

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The chapel is a simple design with two entrances, a main altar, and three chapels beneath towers.
Although the building is small, it is powerful and complex. The previous building was a 4th-century
Christian chapel. At the time the new building was being constructed, Corbusier was not exactly
interested in “Machine Age” architecture but he felt his style was more primitive and sculptural.
Also, he realized when he visited the site that he could not use mechanized means of
construction, because access was too difficult.
On January 17, 2014, Notre Dame du Haut became the target of a break-in. A concrete collection
box was thrown outside, and one of the stained-glass windows, also designed by Le Corbusier and
the only one on the chapel to carry his signature, was broken.

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Architectural Features
The structure is made mostly of concrete and is comparatively small,
enclosed by thick walls, with the upturned roof supported on columns
embedded within the walls, like a sail billowing in the windy currents on the
hill top. In the interior, the spaces left between the walls and roof and filled
with clerestory windows, as well as the asymmetric light from the wall
openings, serve to further reinforce the sacred nature of the space and
reinforce the relationship of the building with its surroundings. The lighting
in the interior is soft and indirect, from the clerestory windows and
reflecting off the whitewashed walls of the chapels with projecting towers.

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The south wall
The South wall of Ronchamp is a creature of its own. Rather than designing a straight, 50 cm
thick concrete piece, Le Corbusier spent months trying to perfect the outside wall. What he
came up with is a wall that starts out as a point on the east end, and expands to up to 10
feet thick its west side. As it moves from east to west, it curves towards the south. To
further expand his design's complexity, Le Corbusier decided to make the windows of the
wall extraordinary. The openings slant towards their centers at varying degrees, thus letting
in light at different angles. The different-sized windows are scattered in an irregular pattern
across the wall. Le Corbusier reportedly insisted that the shapes and patterns were not
arbitrary, but derived from a proportional system based on the Golden Section.

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Furthermore, the glass that closes the windows off is set at alternating
depths. This glass is sometimes clear, but is often decorated with small
pieces of stained glass in typical Corbusier colors: red, green, and yellow.
These stained pieces radiate like rubies, emeralds, and amethysts, and act as
the jewels of the already complex wall. After this extensive design, Le
Corbusier decided not to make the southern partition a bearing wall.
Instead, the building's roof is supported by concrete columns that make it
appear to float above the rest of the space.
In a final move of symbolism, Le Corbusier filled the inside of the wall with
the rubble from the previous chapel that stood at the location. Thus the old
church, and all of its history, would remain in the site.

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Small pieces of stained glass are set deep within the walls, which are
sometimes ten feet thick. The glass glows likes deep-set rubies and emeralds
and amethysts and jewels of all colors.
Because it is a pilgrimage chapel, there are few people worshipping at most
times. But on special feast days, large crowds of thousands will attend. To
accommodate them, Le Corbusier also built an outside altar and pulpit, so the
large crowds can sit or stand on a vast field on the top of the hill. A famous
statue of the Virgin Mary, rescued from the ruins of the chapel destroyed
during WWII, is encased in a special glass case in the wall, and it can be turned
to face inward when the congregation is inside, or to face outward toward the
visitors.

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Roof
Much like the church at Sainte Marie de La Tourette, the roof of Notre Dame du Haut
appears to float above the walls. This is possible, because it is supported by concrete
columns, not the walls themselves. The effect produced allows a strip of light to enter
the building, thus lighting the space further, and making the church feel more open.
This billowing concrete roof was planned to slope toward the back, where a fountain of
abstract forms is placed on the ground. When it rains, the water comes pouring off the
roof and down onto the raised, slanted concrete structures, creating a dramatic natural
fountain.

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Villa Savoye is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris,
France. It was designed by Swiss architect Le Corbusier and built
between 1928 and 1931.

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The Villa Savoye was designed to show off
the “five points of a new architecture” –
pilotis, roof garden, free plan, free façade,
long windows.

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GROUND
FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR
PLAN

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The design features of the Villa Savoye include:
 Modulor Design - the result of Corbu's researches into mathematics, architecture
(the golden section ), and human proportion
 Pilotis - The house is raised on stilts to separate it from the earth, and to use the land
efficiently. These also suggest a modernized classicism.
 No historical ornament
 Abstract sculptural design
 Pure color - white on the outside, a color with associations of newness, purity ,
simplicity, and health (Le Corbusier earlier wrote a book entitled, When the Cathedrals
were White), and planes of subtle color in the interior living areas

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The design features of the Villa Savoye include:
 A very open interior plan
 Dynamic , non-traditional transitions between floors - spiral staircases and ramps
 Built-in furniture
 Ribbon windows (echoing industrial architecture, but also providing openness and
light)
 Roof garden , with both plantings and architectural (sculptural) shapes
 Integral garage (the curve of the ground floor of the house is based on the turning
radius of the 1927 Citroen)

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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University,
in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the only building actually built by Le
Corbusier in the United States, and one of only two in the Americas (the other
is the Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina).
Le Corbusier designed it with the collaboration of Chilean architect Guillermo
Jullian de la Fuente at his 35 rue de Sèvres studio. The building was completed
in 1962.

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Ground Floor Plan Site Plan

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The allotted space was quite small, so the completed building presents itself as a
compact, roughly cylindrical mass bisected by an S-shaped ramp on the third floor. The
concrete ramp is cantilevered from this central spine and stands atop a few pilotis. The
landing at the top of the ramp is located in the core of the building and leads to various
studios and exhibition spaces seen through glass windows and doors, providing views
into the building's instructional and displaying functions without interrupting the
activities in progress.
The exterior of the Carpenter Center presents itself very differently from different angles.

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The Unité d'habitation (meaning Housing Unit) is the
name of a modernist residential housing design
principle developed by Le Corbusier, with the
collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso. The
concept formed the basis of several housing
developments designed by him throughout Europe
with this name. The most famous of these
developments is located in south Marseille.

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1. Internal Street
2. Hall
3. Kitchen/dining/living
4. Parent’s room, bathroom
5. Storage, wardrobe, cupboards, ironing board, children’s
shower
6. Children’s Rooms
7. Void above living room

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It is located in Marseille, France, and was built between 1947 and 1952. One of Le Corbusier's most
famous works, it proved enormously influential and is often cited as the initial inspiration of
the Brutalist architectural style and philosophy.
The building is constructed in béton brut (rough-cast concrete), as the hoped-for steel frame proved
too expensive in light of post-War shortages. The Unité in Marseille is pending designation as a World
Heritage site by UNESCO. It is designated a historic monument by the French Ministry of Culture. It
was damaged by fire on February 9, 2012. The Marseille building, developed with Corbusier's
designers Shadrach Woods, George Candilis, comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve
stories, all suspended on large pilotis.

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The building also incorporates shops with architectural bookshop, sporting, medical and educational facilities,
a hotel which is open to the public, and a gastronomic restaurant, Le Ventre de l'architecte ("The Architect's
Belly"). Inside, corridors run through the centre of the long axis of every third floor of the building, with each
apartment lying on two levels, and stretching from one side of the building to the other, with a balcony. Unlike
many of the inferior system-built blocks it inspired, which lack the original's generous proportions, communal
facilities and parkland setting, the Unité is popular with its residents and is now mainly occupied by upper
middle-class professionals.
The flat roof is designed as a communal terrace with sculptural ventilation stacks, a running track, and a
shallow paddling pool for children. The roof has unobstructed views of the Mediterranean and Marseille.

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Le corbusier co-designed a system of furniture from 1928 with his
cousin Pierre Jeanneret and woman architect Charlotte Perriand.
The famous iconic chairs are great comfort sofa small and big
models and chaise lounge(long chair).

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• Swivel chairs may have wheels on the base allowing
the user to move the chair referred around their work
area and are often also known as office chairs.
• Office swivel chairs, like computer chairs, usually
incorporate a gas lift to adjust the height of the seat,
but not usually large (e.g. recliner) This type is common
in modern offices ..
Swivel Chair
Space, light and order. Those are the things
that men need just as much as they need
bread or a place to sleep.

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Draughtman’s Chair
• A DRAUGHTMAN’S CHAIR is a swivel chair
without wheels that is usually taller than an
'office chair' for use in front of a drawing board .
• They also have a foot-ring to support the legs
when it is not possible to reach the ground.

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Bar stool with a seat that turns or
swivels to the side; allows a person
sitting at the bar to turn with ease
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Chaise Lounge
• Architect Le Corbusier designed a chaise longue
(French, meaning "long chair").
• It is an upholstered sofa () in the shape of
a chair that is long enough to support the legs.
• Which he called LC-4 grand comfort that has
become a classic item.
• In modern French the term chaise longue can
refer to any long reclining chair such as
a deckchair.
• A literal translation in English is "long chair".

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Chaise Lounge
The first blend of a chair and
daybed originated in Egypt. The
earliest known models were
made from palm sticks lashed
together with pieces of cord or
rawhide.

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Sling Chair “Basculant Chair”
• It is known as basculant because of its pivoting back
support. The chair was ergonomically designed to the
proportions of the human body.
•It is made of industrial tubular steel and canvas that
reflect Le Corbusier's concept of furniture as equipment.
The chair was used to furnish several of his most
influential houses, including the Villa Savoye.

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Basculant – ‘LC1’
•The "Basculant LC1 Chair" takes its inspiration from the
18th Century foldable wooden seat, which was used on
picnics during Colonial times.
•Charles Le Corbusier’s creation from 1929 combines
form and function in a beautiful, minimalist design; the
adjustable backrest provides additional seating comfort
DIM: Width- 25.4 in; Depth- 24.6 in; Height-23.8 in

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 The Le Corbusier LC5 Sofa changes into a bed
by pivoting the back cushions.
 The LC5 sofa features a custom mechanism
that quickly converts this piece from a 3 seat
deluxe sofa to a twin bed.
 The LC5 features a polished, stainless steel
frame and high density foam cushions, covered
with Soft genuine leather.
Sofa Bed

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Rectangular Low Table

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Coffee Table
• This Modern coffee table offers two shelves for
display and a largest rectangular table top panel.
• Product is made of medium fiber board construction;
laminate black finish
• Rectangular shape coffee table; two bottom shelves
for display; Z-shape support legs; low profile modern
design.
• Measures 47.25-inch wide by 23.25-inch deep by
15.50-inch high

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Grand Confort
 Grand Confort is a cube-shaped high armchair, whose
leather cushions are held in a chrome-plated steel corset.
 Le Corbusier's Grand Confort series created in 1928

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Grand Confort Single Seater
Product Specifications
•Cushions
Upholstered in full aniline Italian leather.
•Frame
Highly finished tubular stainless steel.
•Dimensions (H x W x D)
710mm x 990mm x 710mm

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Grand Confort Double
Seater Le Corbusier Sofa was made up of high quality
leather.
 (168x62x73 cm)DIMENSION
 Description Le Corbusier Lc3 Sofa
Structure in steel tube chromed
or lacquered, polyurethane foam
cushions rivastiti high
quality calf leather (or fabric).

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Grand Confort Triple Seater
 Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa, high quality leather.
Three-seat.
 DIMENSION(240xh62x73 cm).
 Description Le Corbusier LC3 Sofa
Structure in steel tube chromed or lacquered,
 leather (or fabric) .

Le corbusier built a house on the coast of
Mediterranean sea and died in 1965 while
swimming in Mediterranean sea at Roquebrune-
Cap-Martin, France
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Vers une architecture, translated into English as
Toward an Architecture is a collection of essays
written by Le Corbusier, advocating for and
exploring the concept of modern architecture.
Towards A New Architecture

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Precisions on the present state
of architecture and city
planning

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The Decorative Art Of Today
The Decorative Art of Today was inspired by and written in protest to
the Decorative Arts Exhibition mounted in Paris in 1925.
In it Le Corbusier warned about certain dangerous trends he saw
emerging in interior, industrial, and architectural design. He did not like
what he saw. Against the official tradition of interior decoration, he
called for an architecture that satisfied the imperatives of function
through form and for an interior and an industrial design that
responded to the industrial needs of the present, machine-age methods
of production.

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The Ideas Of Le Corbusier On
Architecture And Urban Planning
The writing of Le Corbusier, one of the master builders of
the twentieth century, is made available in this careful
selection of his texts. His drawings are also reproduced
and are supplemented by plans and photographs of
buildings he either designed himself or cited in his work.

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Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier
In his numerous writings, Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically
silent about his early career. This text examines his nascent years as a
designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922 -
the year he changed his name from Charles Edouard Jeanneret and
established his identity as Le Corbusier. The contributors to the book
offer an account of Le Corbusier's formative years and the cultural,
intellectual and artistic concerns that absorbed him as a young artist
in Switzerland and Paris.

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Album La Roche
The genesis of the Album La Roche is fascinating in itself. In 1923, Le Corbusier built
one of his seminal houses, the Maison La Roche, for his young client and patron,
Raoul La Roche; both were only twenty-seven years old. Before building the house,
the men had gone together on an architectural "scouting trip" to Venice and
Vicenza, where the architect kept a beautiful sketchbook of drawings, watercolors,
and diagrams. On New Year's Day 1925, Le Corbusier presented La Roche with this
exquisite album -- filled with paintings of landscapes, bowls of fruit, and portraits, as
well as architectural plans, construction details, and mathematical calculations. The
assemblage of different media and diverse subject matter reveals both sides of Le
Corbusier's personality: whimsical and disciplined.

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Prize-winning design for the
 Palace of the League of Nations, Geneva (1927-1928);
 the Swiss Building at the Cité Universitaire, Paris (1931-1932);
 Unité d‘ Habitation (1946-1952), an apartment house in Marseille,
France;
 Notre-Dame-de-Haut (1950-1955), a pilgrim church in Ronchamp,
France; and
 the High Court Building (1952-1956) in Chandigarh, India.

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 He received the Frank P. Brown Medal in 1953
 AIA Gold Medal in 1961.
 The University of Cambridge awarded Le
Corbusier an honorary degree in June 1959.

LE Corbusier
 Le Corbusier's portrait was featured on the 10 Swiss francs banknote, pictured
with his distinctive eyeglasses.
The following place-names carry his name:
 Place Le Corbusier, Paris, near the site of his atelier on the Rue de Sèvres.
 Le Corbusier Boulevard, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
 Place Le Corbusier in his hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
 Le Corbusier Street in the partido of Malvinas Argentinas, Buenos Aires Province,
Argentina.
 Le Corbusier Street in Le Village Parisien of Brossard, Quebec, Canada.
 Le Corbusier Promenade, a promenade along the water at Roquebrun-Cap-Martin.
 Le Corbusier Museum, Sector- 19 Chandigarh, India.
 Le Corbusier Museum in Stuttgart am Weissenhof.
Memorials

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PHILOSOPHY
LE
CORBUSIER
October 6, 1887, La
Chaux-de-Fonds,
Switzerland
 The Decorative Art Of Today
 Le Corbusier Before Le
Corbusier
 Towards A New Architecture
 Villa Savoye, France
 Notre Dame, Ronchamp
 Chandigarh City
 Ahmedabad Museum
 “A house is a machine
to live in”
 Mathematical Orders
(G.R.)
 V7 Concept
 Frank P. Brown Medal in
1953
 AIA Gold Medal in 1961.
 An honorary degree in
June 1959.
 Studied modern
building construction
under Auguste Perret in
Paris
 La-Chaux-de-fonds
art school
 Five point philosophy
 Purism
 Brutalism
 Modular Theory
 Use of Glass, Steel
and concrete
 Villa Savoye, France
 Villa Stein, France
 Notre Dame,
Ronchamp
 The Secretariat
 The High Court
 Assembly Hall
(Chandigarh)
 Furniture Designs (LC1,
LC4)
 Sculpture Art
 Modern Kitchen
 Golden Ratio
Proportions
 He worked with Auguste
Perret and German
architect Joseph Hoffman
 Worked with his cousin
Pierre Jeanerette and
adopted his name ‘Le
Corbusier’.

Frei Paul Otto was a German architect and
structural engineer noted for his use of
lightweight structures, in particular tensile and
membrane structures, including the roof of the
Olympic Stadium in Munich for the 1972 Summer
Olympics
Born: May 31, 1925, Germany
Died: March 9, 2015, Germany
He got PRITZKER AWARD in 2015.
LE Corbusier
Let’s Check Your AIQ
Who is the architect that died
recently and is also a pritzker
awardee…???

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Guided By:
Ar. Amrita Rastogi
Bibliography
* www.wikipedia.org
• Book on Modern
Architects
Submitted By:
Namit Mittal
Nisha Kr. Yadav
Kartik Sahney

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