Le Corbusier

the problems of big cities and provide better lives for its residents. These problems included low-quality of living condition as a result from noises, smells, dirtiness, poor security and poor access to infrastructure. Sir Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier are among those town planners who have proposed the notions of their dream city, The Garden City and The Radiant City respectively. These two ideals have influenced the development of many model cities around the world with different features…

What are the goals of the “orthodox” urban planners (Garden Cities” theorists, Le Corbusier etc.) whom Jacob criticizes? Jane Jacobs throughout Chapter 1 of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” explains her philosophy regarding urban planning that is centered around using the successes and failures of existing cities as a paradigm for urban planning and design. Jacobs claims that cities “are an immense laboratory of trial and error” in which city planning should be based off of…

significance, naming the influence of JJ Winckelmann, a German antiquarian and historian, as the one who did the most to bring white into power. He thought that the white sculptures were the pinnacle of beauty and sophistication. A Swiss architect, Le Corbusier, shared this sentiment about the color, and worked to reform cities and the people…

after Chernobyl. Focusing on affected human health in the contemporary context attempting to argue the need of concealing nuclear related information benefitting modernity. Explored by using architectural, scientific, and theoretical texts from, Le Corbusier, “Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, Jacques-Alain Miller and Richard Miller, Eve Blau, IAEA, WHO, and UNSCEAR. We analyze transparency in information represented by the media and the perception of the nuclear industry after the failure of the…

The Age Of Speed = fast - not sold on safety but on speed - car fulfilled a desire need to go fast Martinetti wrote “Futurist Manifesto” - art statements that glorified what they want to do - vehicles are “snorting beasts” - love danger, revolt and audacity, splendor of the world, beauty of speed and struggle after einstein revealed studies with space and time, advances in space travel Rosenquist’s “No Man” = traveling by car, diff experience, everywhere and nowhere train travel - train…

Argument 2: Brutalism reveals ‘The Image’, an ideal aesthetic of modernism as an unresolved visual. (To each individual has their own ideal view of modernism) Banham’s ‘The New Brutalism’ reveals aspects of ‘The Image’, as an ideal aesthetic of modernism as an unresolved visual. As it is a continuously evolving phrase, there are obvious clarities of meaning and articulations to be made of this notion of ‘image’. From this, many architects have insisted many of their own opinions and…

The second floor has a study are surrounded by a balcony and terrace. As stated by John Allan many aspects of the house are similar with one of the works La Corbusier. According to the book Lubetkin by John Allan , Harding experimented with the “full gamut” of Corbusian devices, with duplex spaces, pilots, sculptural staircase, strip windows, screwball and promenade, the street facade is a clear fusion of Villa…

Pruitt Igoe housing is a notorious example of failed public policy of the government. The complex was supposed to put the modernist ideals of Le Corbusier into action; at the time, Architectural Forum ran a story praising the plan to replace “ramshackle houses jammed with people—and rats” in the city's downtown with “vertical neighborhoods for poor people.” It seemed a really compelling solution as it provided the poor labors suitable living quarters with close access to jobs and other urban…

An Invisible Subject, Space ‘The central theme of this book is social and personal space and man 's perception of it’ (Hall, E.T 1966, p. 1). This is the first sentence of a book named ‘The hidden dimension’. Space and the perception of it, people normally imagine some physical objects, or something we can see through eyes. However, when we carefully think about the space, it is actually not just an object that can touch by our hands, can be something cannot see through our eyes but still can…

suggests something that is harsh, ugly and unfriendly due to the incorrect association with the word brutal. In architecture, the term “Brutalism” was actually named from the French Beton Brut, which means raw concrete. The term was first used by Le Corbusier himself to describe his own design but was formerly created by Alison…