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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French-speaking Swiss parents and acquired French nationality in 1930. He designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and the Americas during a five-decade career. He…
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culture · Swiss-French architect (1887–1965) · architect · painter · writer · urban planner · photographer · draftsperson · textile artist · visual artist · designer · sculptor · also Le Corbusier, Corbusier, Charles Édouard Jeanneret, Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier-Saugnier, Le Korbi︠u︡zʹe
Born 6 October 1887 · Died 27 August 1965 · Q4724
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La arquitectura actual trata de la casa, de la casa normal y corriente para personas normales y corrientes. Es la sustituta de los palacios. Una consecuencia de los tiempos». [L'architecture actuelle s'occupe de la maison, de la maison ordinaire et courante pour hommes normaux et courants. Elle laisse tomber les palais. Voilà un signe des temps.
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È un peccato dover mettere "razionale" da un lato della barricata per poter lasciare a colpo sicuro "l'accademico" dall'altra parte. Si dice anche "funzionale". Per me, il termine "architettura" ha qualche cosa di più magico che non il razionale o il funzionale, qualcosa che domina, che predomina, che impone.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Le Corbusier - Modernist, Architect, Designer
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ArchDaily: Galería de Un retrato visual del Cine Neelam, un ícono modernista en la Chandigarh de Le Corbusier - 1
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“The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.”
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“The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.”
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“Veder Nervi collocare uno scheletro di calcestruzzo in una struttura è una magnifica lezione. Non vi mette mai nulla di volgare. Che eleganza! Non si definisce architetto, ma è migliore di quasi tutti noi.”
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“The Despot is not a man. It is the Plan. The correct, realistic, exact plan.”
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“Una casa è una macchina per abitare.”
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“Questi frammenti di elementi naturali, pezzetti di pietra, fossili, schegge di legno, cose martirizzate dagli elementi, raccattate lungo il bordo del mare, [...] che esprimono leggi fisiche, l'usura, l'erosione, lo scoppio, ecc., non solo hanno qualità scultoree, ma anche uno straordinario potenziale poetico.”
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“[Sulla città alta di Bergamo] Ogni frastuono, ogni fragore di macchina dovrebbero essere banditi come profanazioni esecrabili.”
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“[Sulla Piazza Vecchia di Bergamo] Non si può più toccare neppure una pietra, sarebbe un delitto.”
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“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.”
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“Lo scopo dell'architettura è commuovere. L'emozione architettonica si verifica quando l'opera risuona dentro di noi in armonia con un universo alle cui leggi tributiamo obbedienza, fede e rispetto.”
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“It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.”
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“L'uomo abita male, questa è la ragione vera e profonda dei rivolgimenti attuali.”
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“You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful." That is Architecture. Art enters in.”
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“L'arte del decoratore consiste nel fare nelle case altrui quello che non si sognerebbe mai di fare nella propria.”
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“A house is a machine for living in.”
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“L'architettura è un fatto d'arte, un fenomeno che suscita emozione, al di fuori dei problemi di costruzione, al di là di essi. La Costruzione è per tener su: l'Architettura è per commuovere.”
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“Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.”
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“L'architettura è il gioco sapiente, corretto e magnifico dei volumi raggruppati sotto la luce. I nostri occhi sono fatti per vedere le forme nella luce: l'ombra e la luce rivelano queste forme; i cubi, i coni, le sfere, i cilindri e le piramidi sono le grandi forme primarie… La loro immagine ci appare netta… E senza ambiguità.”
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“Réponse rapportée de Le Corbusier, informé du fait que la cité Frugès à Pessac qu'il avait conçue a été modifiée par ses habitants.”
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“Una casa es una máquina para habitar». [Une maison est une machine à habiter].”
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“La arquitectura actual trata de la casa, de la casa normal y corriente para personas normales y corrientes. Es la sustituta de los palacios. Una consecuencia de los tiempos». [L'architecture actuelle s'occupe de la maison, de la maison ordinaire et courante pour hommes normaux et courants. Elle laisse tomber les palais. Voilà un signe des temps.”
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“È un peccato dover mettere "razionale" da un lato della barricata per poter lasciare a colpo sicuro "l'accademico" dall'altra parte. Si dice anche "funzionale". Per me, il termine "architettura" ha qualche cosa di più magico che non il razionale o il funzionale, qualcosa che domina, che predomina, che impone.”
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“Cuando las catedrales eran blancas, Europa ya había organizado la demanda imperativa de las técnicas.”
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“Dobbiamo essere compatiti perché abitiamo in dimore indegne, che ci rovinano il fisico e il morale.”
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“[...] Compiti dell'ingegnere: rispetto delle leggi fisiche, resistenza dei materiali (limiti materiali, calcoli, uomo economico, sicurezza...). Compiti dell'architetto: conoscenza dell'uomo, immaginazione creatrice, bellezza, libertà delle scelte (uomo spirituale).”
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“eigentlich: Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris”
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“schweizerisch-französischer Architekt”
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“not all citizens could become leaders. The technocratic elite, the industrialists, financiers, engineers, and artists would be located in the city centre, while the workers would be removed to the fringes of the city”
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“It is an architectural symphony which surpasses all my hopes, which flashes and develops under the light in a way which is unimaginable and unforgettable. From far, from up close, it provokes astonishment; all made with raw concrete and a cement cannon. Adorable, and grandiose. In all the centuries no one has seen that.”
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“The centre of Paris, currently threatened with death, threatened by exodus, is, in reality, a diamond mine...To abandon the centre of Paris to its fate is to desert in face of the enemy.”
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Artnet: Le Corbusier
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Domus Web: The best architect-designed homes for sale this summer, from Le Corbusier to Frank Lloyd Wright
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ELLE Decor: Bofill, en 1976: "Le Corbusier ha muerto; Antoni Gaudí es el talento y la genialidad"
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Unité d'Habitation / Le Corbusier - 3
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ArchDaily: Galería de El último edificio diseñado por Le Corbusier, abre sus puertas al público en Zúrich - 22
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ArchDaily: Galería de Lejos de la vieja arquitectura: lo que Le Corbusier realmente quiso decir - 2
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ArchDaily: Galería de Maison Guiette: El enclave modernista de Le Corbusier en Amberes, Bélgica - 1
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Arquitectura y Diseño: El efecto Le Corbusier: por qué seguimos viviendo en la casa que él imaginó hace un siglo (y sigue funcionando)
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ArchDaily: Galería de Fundación Norman Foster ofrece refugio para el automóvil de Le Corbusier - 11
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Plan Maestro para Chandigarh / Le Corbusier - 49
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Casas 14 y 15 de la Weissenhof-Siedlung / Le Corbusier + Pierre Jeanneret - 16
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Ronchamp / Le Corbusier - 15
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ArchDaily: Galería de Video: Convent de la Tourette / Le Corbusier - 1
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ArchDaily: Galería de Exposición “Experimentando Le Corbusier” - reinterpretando los cánones modernos - 2
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ArchDaily: Galería de Le Corbusier a color - 5
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Sortir à Paris: Matali Crasset at the Villa Savoye in Poissy: "the moment of upheaval" takes hold at Le Corbusier
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Pabellón Philips Expo 58 / Le Corbusier & Iannis Xenakis - 1
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ArchDaily: Galería de Congreso LC 2015: Le Corbusier 50 años después / España - 1
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ArchDaily: Galería de Le Corbusier, en perspectiva - 4
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ArchDaily: Galería de Exposición 'Le Corbusier visitado' - 1
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ArchDaily: Ciudades del futuro: de la Ciudad Radiante de Le Corbusier a la "Ciudad que respira 2050" neerlandesa
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ArchDaily: “Experimenting Le Corbusier” Exhibition - Reinterpreting Modern Canons
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ArchDaily: Le Corbusier y el modernismo brasileño: se inaugura la exposición ABERTO4 en la Maison La Roche de París
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de la Arquitectura: Edificio de la Asociación de Propietarios de Molinos / Le Corbusier - 2
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2016· 1 entry
Seventeen projects by Le Corbusier in seven countries were inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites as The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
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2006· 1 entry
A Palace of Congresses for Strasbourg (1962–65) and a hospital in Venice (1961–1965), which were never built
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2003· 1 entry
“Architektur ist das kunstvolle, korrekte und großartige Spiel der unter dem Licht versammelten Baukörper." - zitiert in Hans Jürgen Schmitz, Akzeptanz von Arbeitsplatzbedingungen in Büros an Atrien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tageslichtverhältnisse, Tectum Verlag DE, 2003, ISBN 978-3-82888-477-9, S. 22, Google Books”
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1996· 1 entry
“Le Corbusier: Architect, Painter, Poet by Jean Jenger (1996).”
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1969· 1 entry
“Le Corbusier's reply upon learning that the housing project he had designed at Pessac had been altered by its inhabitants, quoted by Philippe Boudon, Lived-In Architecture: Pessac Revisited (1969) [trans. Gerald Onn]”
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1966· 1 entry
By the art historian Bevis Hillier for a catalogue of an exhibition on the style, and in 1968 in the title of a book, Art Deco of the 20s and 30s
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1965· 2 entries
Died 1965-08-27.
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“The New York Times [obituary] (1965-08-28)”
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1964· 1 entry
In a ceremony held in his atelier on rue de Sèvres, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur by Culture Minister André Malraux
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Sikkens Prize (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
In the same year as the dedication of the Palace of the Assembly in Chandigarh, the first retrospective exhibit on his work was held at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris
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1961· 1 entry
Won Frank P. Brown Medal (1961).
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1960· 2 entries
Published a new book, L'Atelier de la recherché patiente The workshop of patient research), simultaneously published in four languages
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Le Corbusier began a third religious building, the Church of Saint Pierre in the new town of Firminy-Vert, where he had built a Unité d'Habitation and a cultural and sports centre
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1959· 3 entries
“The Edict of Chandigarh," plaque erected at Chandigarh, India as an abbreviated form of the document The Establishment Statute of the Land (1959-12-17)”
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A successful international campaign was launched to have his Villa Savoye, threatened with demolition, declared a historic monument; it was the first time that a work by a living architect had received this distinction
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Expanded it with 20 new shades, bringing the total number of colors to 63
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1958· 1 entry
Collaborated with the composer Edgar Varèse on a work called Le Poème électronique, a show of sound and light, for the Philips Pavilion at the International Exposition in Brussels
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1957).
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And his mother, to whom he was closely attached, died in 1960
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1955· 1 entry
Published Poéme de l'angle droit, a portfolio of lithographs, published in the same collection as the book Jazz by Henri Matisse
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1953· 1 entry
Won Royal Gold Medal (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Was made a Commander of the Légion d'Honneur in a ceremony held on the roof of his new building
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1950· 1 entry
By Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and invited to propose a project
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1948· 2 entries
Replaced this with a colourful mural he painted himself
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“Der Kern unserer alten Städte mit ihren Domen und Münstern muß zerschlagen und durch Wolkenkratzer ersetzt werden." - Zitiert nach Hans Sedlmayr: Verlust der Mitte, Die bildende Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts als Symptom und Symbol der Zeit, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1948, S. 109 books.google”
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1947· 2 entries
“When the Cathedrals Were White (1947)”
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For a city of 150,000 inhabitants, but the Indian government wanted a grander and more monumental city
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1943· 2 entries
Founded a new association of modern architects and builders, the Ascoral, the Assembly of Constructors for a renewal of architecture, but there were no projects to build
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And became an influential text for city planners in the 1950s and 1960s
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1940· 1 entry
He wrote to his mother in October 1940, as the Vichy government enacted anti-Jewish laws: "The Jews are having a bad time.
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1938· 1 entry
“(Original franz.: "Le centre de nos vieilles villes avec leurs cathédrales et leurs monastères doit être rasé et faire place à des groupes de gratte-ciel." - Zitiert nach Raymond Lemaire: La restauration des monuments anciens, De Sikkel, Anvers 1938, S. 44 books.google)”
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1937· 1 entry
To discuss public housing and was scheduled to meet in the United States in 1939, but the meeting was cancelled because of the war
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1935· 1 entry
Le Corbusier made his first visit to the United States
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1934· 1 entry
In 1934, after Lagardelle had obtained a position at the French embassy in Rome, he arranged for Le Corbusier to lecture on architecture in Italy.
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1932· 1 entry
Was invited to take part in an international competition for the new Palace of the Soviets in Moscow, which was to be built on the site of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, demolished on Stalin's orders
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1931· 2 entries
Developed a visionary plan for another city Algiers, then part of France
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Introduced a carefully selected palette of 43 colors intended for specific architectural contexts
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1930· 1 entry
In Brussels by Victor Bourgeois on the topic "Rational methods for groups of habitations"
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1929· 2 entries
The trio prepared the "House fittings" section for the Decorative Artists Exhibition and asked for a group stand, renewing and widening the 1928 avant-garde group idea
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Travelled to Brazil where he gave conferences on his architectural ideas
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1928· 6 entries
In Une Maison, un Palais, he described it: "Arab architecture gives us a precious lesson: it is best appreciated in walking, on foot
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Invited the architect Charlotte Perriand to join his studio as a furniture designer
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Following the publication of his theories, he began experimenting with furniture design
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The French Minister of Labour, Louis Loucheur, won the passage of French law on public housing, calling for the construction of 260,000 new housing units within five years
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Received a commission from the Soviet government to construct the headquarters of the Tsentrosoyuz, or central office of trade unions, a large office building whose glass walls alternated with plaques of stone
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Le Corbusier took a major step toward establishing modernist architecture as the dominant European style
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1927· 3 entries
Was invited by the German Werkbund to build three houses in the model city of Weissenhof near Stuttgart, based on the Citrohan House and other theoretical models he had published
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And co-authored by his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret
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Le Corbusier, Pierre Chareau and others proposed the foundation of an international conference to establish the basis for a common style
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1926· 2 entries
Entered the competition for the construction of a headquarters for the League of Nations in Geneva with a plan for an innovative lakeside complex of modernist white concrete office buildings and meeting halls
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Le Corbusier received the opportunity he had been looking for; he was commissioned by a Bordeaux industrialist, Henry Frugès, a fervent admirer of his ideas on urban planning, to build a complex of worker housing, the Ci
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1925· 2 entries
Between 1925 and 1928, Le Corbusier had connections to Le Faisceau, a short-lived French fascist party led by Georges Valois (Valois later became an anti-fascist).
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Le Corbusier combined a series of articles about decorative art from L'Esprit Nouveau into a book, L'art décoratif d'aujourd'hui (The Decorative Art of Today)
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1924· 2 entries
“(Original franz.: "On met en œuvre de la pierre, du bois, du ciment ; on en fait des maisons, des palais ; c'est de la construction. L'ingéniosité travaille. Mais, tout à coup, vous me prenez au cœur, vous me faites du bien, je suis heureux, je dis : c'est beau. Voilà l'architecture. L'art est ici." - Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier, éd. G. Crès, 1924, S. 123)”
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“("Une maison est une machine à habiter." - Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier, éd. G. Crès, 1924, p. 73)”
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1923· 1 entry
Collected his essays from L'Esprit Nouveau published his first and most influential book, Towards an Architecture
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1922· 7 entries
Had presented his model of the Ville Contemporaine, a city of three million inhabitants, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris
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“Das Haus ist eine Maschine zum Wohnen." - Le Corbusier: 1922 – Ausblick auf eine Architektur. Deutsch von Hans Hildebrandt, überarbeitet von Eva Gärtner. Basel 20178 (1963), S. 80 books.google, zitiert in: Karl Albert, Philosophie der Kunst, Band 2 von Philosophische Studien, Academia Verlag Richarz, 1989, Karl Albert ISBN 978-3-88345-451-1, S. 196, Google Books”
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Presented his plan for the Ville Contemporaine, a model city for three million people, whose residents would live and work in a group of identical sixty-story tall apartment buildings surrounded by lower zig-zag apart
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And 1923, Le Corbusier devoted himself to advocating his new concepts of architecture and urban planning in a series of polemical articles published in L'Esprit Nouveau
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“Baukunst ist das wissende, genaue und großartige Spiel der Baukörper unter dem Licht." - Le Corbusier: 1922 – Ausblick auf eine Architektur. Deutsch von Hans Hildebrandt, überarbeitet von Eva Gärtner. Basel 20178 (1963), S. 157 books.google.”
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And his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, a fellow architect and furniture designer, opened a studio in Paris at 35 rue de Sèvres
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“Ich halte fest: Ein Kunstwerk muß Charakter haben. // Klar formulieren, das Werk mit einer Einheit erfüllen, ihm eine Grundhaltung geben, einen Charakter: reine Schöpfung des Geistes." - Le Corbusier: 1922 – Ausblick auf eine Architektur. Deutsch von Hans Hildebrandt, überarbeitet von Eva Gärtner. Basel 20178 (1963), S. 154 books.google.”
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1920· 1 entry
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret adopted Le Corbusier (an altered form of his maternal grandfather's name, Lecorbésier) as a pseudonym, reflecting his belief that anyone could reinvent themselves
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1918· 2 entries
And in 1920 founded their journal L'Esprit Nouveau
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Le Corbusier met the Cubist painter Amédée Ozenfant, in whom he recognised a kindred spirit
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1917· 1 entry
And began his architectural practice with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret (1896–1967), a partnership that would last until the 1950s, with an interruption in the World War II years
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1912· 1 entry
Began his most ambitious project yet: a new house for his parents, also located on the forested hillside near La-Chaux-de-Fonds
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1911· 1 entry
Traveled again with his friend August Klipstein for five months; this time he journeyed to the Balkans and visited Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece, as well as Pompeii and Rome, filling nearly 80 sketchbooks with
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1907· 1 entry
“Habitation concept was inspired by the visit he had made to the Florence Charterhouse at Galluzzo in Italy, in 1907 and 1910 during his early travels. He wanted to recreate, he wrote, an ideal place”
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1905· 1 entry
And two other students, under the supervision of their teacher, René Chapallaz, designed and built his first house, the Villa Fallet, for the engraver Louis Fallet, a friend of his teacher Charles L'Eplattenier
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-10-06.
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