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Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier
1887-1965
"The materials of city planning are sky,
space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
The house.......a machine for living. "
The Times 1965
Swiss born architect Le Corbusier's early style was very Mondrian-like
with thin walls and shapes, lots of glass, strong horizontals
and verticals. In his later style he used thicker walls and more
fluid shapes. Ushering a in a new, light-filled vision of life
the mission statement "The Five Points of a New Architecture"
listed a) the use of skinny columns so buildings could be raised
off the ground and traffic pass underneath: b)The open plan which
allows rooms to be flexible: c)The free facade: allowing openings
to be fluid: d)Roof gardens: bringing nature back into the city
and e)Ribbon windows: letting in as much light as possible. His
elegant white Parisian villas and monumental buildings like the
Parliament building at Chandigarh are legendary.
Masterpieces included:
Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp France
Savoye House, Poissy-sur-Seine France
UN Secretariat New York
Convent at La Tourette France
Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand designed the
famous chaise longue which first appeared in 1929 and later in the same year at
the Salon d'Automne in Paris. .
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