Charles-Edouard Jeanneret: Le Corbusier

An architect’s intention on how his or her design is to be viewed can be misconstrued in a variety of different ways. For example, dissecting the compositional and formal design of a building, with or without knowledge of the architect’s actual intent, is completely up to the interpretation of the person or persons researching or viewing the design. In my own research about the compositional and formal design of the Margaret Esherick House, designed by Louis Kahn, I have come to realize, with the help of scholarly resources, the direct intention of Louis Kahn’s design; in which this paper will come to analyze and explain. While compiling research about the Esherick house, I came across a very informative book, The Houses of Louis Kahn, written by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker. The Houses of Louis

What would it be like to be a member of one of the world's greatest journeys? Though he was just a baby, this was what happened to Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was an unintentional addition to Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific ("Sacagawea"). However, the stories of this child do not end with Lewis and Clark's return to St. Louis.

In 1944 he graduated from the ETH in architectur.Following the war,in 1947,he left Zurich for Paris where,after briefly working in the atelier of the painter Fernand Leger,he was accepted by Le Corbusier as an assistant at the Rue de Sevres.There he wasassigned two projects that were to figure heavily in his later thinking as a teacher and acrchitect.In1948 he worked on the design of the Villa Currutchet located in Rio Plato,Brazil;and in 1949 Le Corbusier,obviously impressed with the abilities of this neophyte Swiss architect,appointed him project architect for the United Habitation,relocating HoeslitoMarseilles to manage and oversee the construction there of his own first major postwar work*2.

Architect James Stirling’s first commissioned project, the Flats at Ham common, is a project that contained a lot of direct influences from Le Corbusier’s Maisons Jaoul which was just completed one year ago. Stirling criticized after he visited the Maisons Jaoul and explains the architecture contained a mismatch with its conceptualizations. Greatly disappointed by Le

Jean-Baptiste was shy about his nose ability until he met an owner of a perfumery. Then Jean-Baptiste nose ability was honored rather than being shamed. Jean-Baptiste life was preparing him for the moment he was waiting for his whole entire life, which was being able to use his freaky nose smeller enhancer and not being called “ a strange child “

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a famous, french artist who specialized in landscapes. Born during a period of political and social upheaval in Western Europe, artists in the 1800s, began to challenge reason and instead, focused on internal passions and the human subconscious.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris was born on October 6, 1887 in Switzerland. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris is better known as Le Corbusier. He adopted the name of Le Cotbusier, which is an altered form of his grandfather’s name, Lecorbésier. ("Le Corbusier Biography"). He also adopted that name because he believed that anyone could reinvent himself or herself and that changing your name was a way to reinvent. In his architecture he mostly built with reinforced concrete and geometric forms. ("Le Corbusier Biography").

They were the pilotis, the roof garden, the free plan, the elongated window and the free façade. These five topics were essentially very new ideas at the time and were regarded as the cutting edge in design (Von Moos 70). Corbusier used all of these elements in his Villa Savoye located in Paris, France, which was designed in the purist fashion. In order to incorporate the idea of purity into the structure, the building is painted completely white, exaggerating the smooth flow of the planar walls and ceilings. Corbusier's intent was for the building to stay clean and completely white, devoid of stains to resemble purity of spirit (Palermo, 23 Feb 1999). While he sticks to this idea, the function and practicality of the building is lost because of all the extra work that has to go into the building to keep it pristinely white. Apart from Villa Savoye, there are other buildings in which Corbusier sacrificed function for aesthetics. In the Salvation Army building in Paris he attempted to design a building with it's own form of heat control system by using different layers and thickness' of glass to regulate air currents. Instead of keeping a constant 18-degree temperature on the interior, the buildings glass panels worked like a greenhouse and kept hot air inside making the interior practically uninhabitable (Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi 30).

However the flourishing career Breuer was expectant as an architect was late to come. Finally in 1932, following 4 years, the famous manufacturer P. Harnischmacher gave him the commission to project his new house in Wiesbaden. Breuer’s project immediately showed a very personal recognized language, totally rational with the art vocabulary which he was adopting in design.

When considering the cultural and social aspects of a building, one must study the historical context of its construction. In the 1920’s, European architecture was beginning to integrate traditional elements with the new social demands for modern technology. Although many architects and engineers were involved, Le Corbusier was the French architect who people today believe led this architectural revolution in Europe. Few are aware of the fact that Pierre Chareau also played a significant role in this modernist movement. Originally a furniture designer, the Maison de Verre was his first full scale architectural project. Doctor Jean Dalsace and his wife Annie commissioned Chareau to design their home and kept a binding friendship throughout and

In relation to this the book ’Le Corbusier ‘by Kenneth Frampton (British architect, critic and historian, born: 20/11/1930) also holds a link within some of the opinions, movements and beliefs of Le Corbusier. Focusing from the early stages of Corbusier’s life to his last works, we find ourselves indulging in facts and creations of Corbusier himself such as the Dom-ino. As featured in the previous reading ‘towards a new architecture’ Corbusier talks about the engineers aesthetic ‘two things that march together and follow one from the other one at its full height, the other in an unhappy state of retrogression’. After some research in to this I was lead to the dom-ino design (image above). The dom –ino was an early example of the engineers aesthetic and became the theoretical basis of most of Corbusiers houses up to 1935 and extended on a scale much larger than the two story house. The dom-ino led to a number of prototype buildings such as the United De Habitation. The design allows the concept of the free facade, The pieces were to be pre-fabricated allowing the construction time of the design to be reduced and thereby a product of Corbusier’s application of

When I first saw this painting done by Camille Corot, I was in awe. It was one of the many beautiful paintings that I saw on my first trip to the Fine Arts Museum of Houston. The painting looks almost dreamlike and soft, which amazed me on how a painter could create an art piece as such. This piece is called Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, by Camille Corot, French, 1861, the medium is oil on canvas. I was immediately attracted to this art piece because of the earthy and naturalistic colors used, and how the landscape seems almost hazy. This enchanting painting tells the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus, the Greek god of music, saving his wife, Eurydice, from Hades, God of the Underworld. Orpheus absentmindedly breaks the terms of

The Bauhaus school was founded in 1919 in Weimar by German architect Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969). In 1923, Walter Gropius introduced the agreement between “creative artists and the industrial world”. The Bauhaus is most famous for the idea of combining forms and functions. They combined both fine arts and design elements to create a curriculum that trained artists and designers to be capable of producing both functional and aesthetic work. One of the main goals was to bring design and technology together. During the Bauhaus period, Fine art and craft were combined together and aimed toward problem solving for an innovative, modern and industrial society. Nowadays, the Bauhaus legacy continues in modern designs, such as minimalism, or design brands like IKEA. In this essay, I will analyze Bauhaus’s influence on modern design, including architecture and furniture design by exploring different examples from different periods of time.

Le Corbusier's early work was related to nature, but as his ideas progressed, he developed the Maison-Domino, a basic building concept for mass production with free-standing pillars and rigid floors. He settled in Paris in 1917 where he published his book called “Vers une architecture” (Towards a New Architecture), based on his earlier articles in L'Esprit

The five principles of architecture that Le Corbusier proposed in 1923 can be noted in, not only Le Corbusier’s work, but also in other modern architecture, because each principle contributes to the overall aesthetic of the building, as well as providing a functional use. However, all five principles don’t have to be incorporated into one design, which is what this essay will explore. It will attempt to show that one principle can prevail over the other four, but all five are needed to create a full representation of Le Corbusier’s envision of architecture. This is shown through Le Corbusier’s villas, specifically the Villa Shodhan and this essay will analyse how the principles contrast against one another. Furthermore, a small scale design project will be created alongside the essay in an attempt to produce a unique villa through the embodiment of Le Corbusier’s five principles of architecture. Through further analysis of the Villa Shodhan I will also argue that not all principles are independent and that some principles can function efficiently without the rest. Nonetheless, Le Corbusier’s most renowned villa, Villa Savoye, utilizes all five principles; therefore, it is the most accurate image of Le Corbusier’s five principles of architecture. However, after this villa had been completed it became clear that the flat roof, which served a domestic purpose as a roof garden had failed