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26 Cards in this Set
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What book did LC write in 1925? |
Le Corbusier, L’Art Décoratif d’Aujourd’hui |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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” |
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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 |
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Artist, Title, Materials, Date. |
Marcel Duchamp, Fresh Widow, assemblage (wood, metal, leather and Perspex), 1920 |
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Who is this figure? |
Le Corbusier’s mother: Marie Charlotte Amélie Jeanneret-Perret |
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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 |
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What does LC's book "Vers une Architecture",1923 point out as an influence to his architecture? |
ocean liners |
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What was added to the exterior of Villa Le Lac in the 1950s?
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steel |
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What is the name of this raised study space in Villa Le Lac? |
An eagle's nest |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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What statue sits outside of LC's Pavillion de L'Esprit Nouveau, 1925? |
Statue by Jacques Lipchitz |
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Artist, Title, Location, Date. |
Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lenin Workers’ Club, Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Which designer showed brilliance in kitchen design? Give example and date of a kitchen. |
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Frankfurt Kitchen, 1920s. |
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Artist, Title, Location, Date, House #'s? |
Le Corbusier, Maisons Weissenhof-Siedlung, Stuttgart, Germany, 1927 Houses 14 & 15 |
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Artist, Title, Location, Date |
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1928 |
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What structures might LC have been influenced by when creating Villa Savoye? |
Vernacular Borecki home |
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Artist, Title, Location, Date |
Le Corbusier, Armée du Salut, Cité de Refuge, Paris, France, 1929 |
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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)
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Artist, Title, Location, Date. |
Le Corbusier, Maison de week-end, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, 1934 |