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What book did LC write in 1925?

Le Corbusier, L’Art Décoratif d’Aujourd’hui

What essay by Adolf Loos, did LC include in the second issue of L’Esprit Nouveau? Give date the essay was published.

Adolf Loos, “Ornament and Crime”, 1908

What is the name of the essay that LC included in L’Esprit Nouveau by Dr. Pierre Winter? Give date.

Dr. Pierre Winter, “Le Corps Nouveau,” L’Esprit Nouveau, 1922

What plan for a building is based after the Maison Dom-ino? Give Date. Give 2 points of elaboration.

Maison Citrohan, 1920


+ Named after the Citroën


motor car (standardization/mass


production)


+ Bears some similarities to


vernacular architecture of the


Mediteranean region (megaron)

What is LC's "Five points of a New Architecture"?



1. Supporting columns in place of


supporting walls.


2.Free, flexible floor plans, instead


of fixed rooms.


3.Long ribbon windows, in place of


windows limited in size by exterior


supporting wall.


4. Pilotis (reinforced concrete


columns) elevate building off


ground, free up space for cars and


terrain


5.Usable roof terrace, rather than


pitched roof restores area of


ground taken up by building and


grass on roof protects concrete.


Importance, also, of the


“promenade architecturale”

Artist, Title, materials, date, What is important to note about this style of window?

Artist, Title, materials, date, What is important to note about this style of window?

Henri Matisse, Intérieur à Collioure (La Sieste), oil on canvas, 1905


Typical vertical French window

Artist, Title, Materials, Date.

Artist, Title, Materials, Date.

Marcel Duchamp, Fresh Widow, assemblage (wood, metal, leather and Perspex), 1920

Who is this figure?

Who is this figure?

Le Corbusier’s mother: Marie Charlotte Amélie Jeanneret-Perret

Artist, Title, Location, Date. Who was this for? What points of architecture does this building convey?

Artist, Title, Location, Date. Who was this for? What points of architecture does this building convey?

Le Corbusier, Villa Le Lac, Corseaux, Switzerland, 1923


For his parents: includes garden terrace, free floor plan, long ribbom window

What does LC's book "Vers une Architecture",1923 point out as an influence to his architecture?

ocean liners

What was added to the exterior of Villa Le Lac in the 1950s?


steel

What is the name of this raised study space in Villa Le Lac?

What is the name of this raised study space in Villa Le Lac?

An eagle's nest

Artist, Title, Location, Date. What is this building currently? Who was the second house for? Elaborate.

Artist, Title, Location, Date. What is this building currently? Who was the second house for? Elaborate.

Le Corbusier, Maison La Roche- Jeanneret, Paris, France, 1923


-what is now the Fondation Le Corbusier


+ The second house, for a rich


banker and collector named La


Roche, was meant to provide a


gallery/showcase for his art


collection and a place to host parties


+ Debates over location and number


of Purist artworks


+ Sloping, ship-like interior ramp,


where art is revealed along a path


+ Industrial aesthetic yet luxurious


+ Promenade architecturale


(prefigured in the Voyage d’Orient)


+ Several construction problems

Artist, Title, Location, Date. Elaborate.

Artist, Title, Location, Date. Elaborate.

Le Corbusier, Villa Stein de Monzie, Garches, 1926-28


+ Metal stairs and railing evoke a boat deck, again reflecting LC’s love of naval


architecture


+ Roof terrace with elliptical tower (intended to conceal a water tank) with a spiral


staircase one can climb to obtain a bird’s eye view of the city in the distance, as one


might climb the mast of a ship.


Le Corbusier, Villa Stein de Monzie, Garches, 1926-28


Interior


+ Clients presented unconventional family situation: two master bedrooms.


+ Mme De Monzie’s was of equal importance as the Stein couple.


+Their bedrooms are identical in size


+ Living and working spaces for both a couple and a single mother at once


+ Space is flexible, allowing varying degrees of privacy and openness.


+ Required reconsiderations to be made re conventions of domesticity and space


+The unconventional lifestyles and politics seemed a match for an avant-garde architect.


+ Has been argues that this is a good example of how women played a role in the shaping of


Modern architecture, given the influence of Mme. De Monzie and alternative family


arrangements (Alice Friedmann)

Artist, Title, Location, Date. What does this building convey? Where was this building reconstructed? What did he present inside?

Artist, Title, Location, Date. What does this building convey? Where was this building reconstructed? What did he present inside?

Le Corbusier, Pavillion de L’Esprit Nouveau, Paris, France, 1925


Exterior: modern architecture as “mass media”


-reconstruction in Bologna, Italy, present day


-Presentation of the Plan Voisin, his technocratic urban vision

What statue sits outside of LC's Pavillion de L'Esprit Nouveau, 1925?

Statue by Jacques Lipchitz

Artist, Title, Location, Date.

Artist, Title, Location, Date.

Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lenin Workers’ Club, Exposition Internationale des Arts


Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925

Artist, Title, Location, Date. Elaborate.

Artist, Title, Location, Date. Elaborate.

Le Corbusier, Quartiers Modernes Frugès, Pessac, France, 1925


+ Commissioned by industrialist


+ For factory workers


+ Land in Le Monteil district of Pessac, on


outskirts, surrounded by pine forest.


+ “I authorize you to put your theories into


practice, however extreme the


consequences might be. I would like to


achieve conclusive results in a new form of


inexpensive living quarters. Pessac must


be a laboratory.”


+ Paternalism?


+ Corbu given full freedom to roll out his


particular vision of economic,


standardized, mass-produced, minimalist


housing.


+ One of France’s first attempts at social


housing (not common until postwar)


+ 135 houses was downsized to 50

What are 4 examples of architects that built for "Maisons Weissenhof-Siedlung", Stuttgart, Germany, 1927?

Peter Behrens, JJP Oud, Mart Stam, and Mies van der Rohe

Which designer showed brilliance in kitchen design? Give example and date of a kitchen.

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Frankfurt Kitchen, 1920s.

Artist, Title, Location, Date, House #'s?

Artist, Title, Location, Date, House #'s?

Le Corbusier, Maisons Weissenhof-Siedlung, Stuttgart, Germany, 1927


Houses 14 & 15

Artist, Title, Location, Date

Artist, Title, Location, Date

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1928

What structures might LC have been influenced by when creating Villa Savoye?

Vernacular Borecki home

Artist, Title, Location, Date

Artist, Title, Location, Date

Le Corbusier, Armée du Salut, Cité de Refuge, Paris, France, 1929

Artist, Title, Location, Date. Elaborate.

Artist, Title, Location, Date. Elaborate.

Le Corbusier, Apartment for M. Charles de Beistegui, Paris, France, 1929


-built on the 15th floor of an older building.


-surrealist (they loved the flee market)


-architecture relates to the outer world (ie. Arch de Triumph/ Eiffel Tower)


Artist, Title, Location, Date.

Artist, Title, Location, Date.

Le Corbusier, Maison de week-end, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, 1934