“An urbanist who lived in a fishing cottage, an iconoclast who invented the highrise, an architect who wanted to be a painter”. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965, commonly known as Le Corbusier), was a well known modern artist and architect from Switzerland, later situated in France. His career years were later in the modernism period, yet he is called ‘the grandfather’ of modern architecture. In this essay, I will be discussing how Le Corbusier’s work in painting and in architecture, was breaking traditions of the past and embracing new ways of doing art. When Le Corbusier moved to Paris, he met Amédée Ozenfant, a painter and designer who introduced him to Cubism. A purely modern movement, created with the intention of presenting elements
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This book, called Towards an Architecture, presented the new and modern architecture. Perceived as controversial, this book boldly exclaimed that beauty and decorations are useless, the object itself was the decoration. “A house is a machine for living” – is one of Le Corbusier most famous quotes. Providing the idea that architecture is an object, it solely serves a functional purpose. In his well-known essay Five Points of Architecture, he provides the basis for what came to be modern architecture. Placement of building on reinforced concrete columns and getting rid of supporting walls; no restrains and a free design to the ground plan; separating the façade from its structural constraints; the horizontal window lighting the rooms equally; and roof gardens serving a domestic purpose. The most iconic Le Corbusier work was Ville Savoye, which within itself engraved all of the five points and was a perfect representation of Purism in buildings and domestic objects. The simple shapes and initial color (which didn’t use to be white, but rather beige) are a direct correlation to the characteristics of his paintings. Ville Savoye, in its design, is an example of how the industrial revolution had shaped art and now architecture. The column supported house, provides a space underneath; Le Corbusier used this space as an entrance and as a parking lot. Its curve is a
This book, called Towards an Architecture, presented the new and modern architecture. Perceived as controversial, this book boldly exclaimed that beauty and decorations are useless, the object itself was the decoration. “A house is a machine for living” – is one of Le Corbusier most famous quotes. Providing the idea that architecture is an object, it solely serves a functional purpose. In his well-known essay Five Points of Architecture, he provides the basis for what came to be modern architecture. Placement of building on reinforced concrete columns and getting rid of supporting walls; no restrains and a free design to the ground plan; separating the façade from its structural constraints; the horizontal window lighting the rooms equally; and roof gardens serving a domestic purpose. The most iconic Le Corbusier work was Ville Savoye, which within itself engraved all of the five points and was a perfect representation of Purism in buildings and domestic objects. The simple shapes and initial color (which didn’t use to be white, but rather beige) are a direct correlation to the characteristics of his paintings. Ville Savoye, in its design, is an example of how the industrial revolution had shaped art and now architecture. The column supported house, provides a space underneath; Le Corbusier used this space as an entrance and as a parking lot. Its curve is a