COLLEGE PROJECT
Assignment
Architect: Le Corbusier
Name: Ali Asif Husain Momin
Roll No. 2342
SEM I
Introduction
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret also known as Le Corbusier, was a
Swiss-French architect, designer, writer, painter, and urban planner
who pioneered the design language which today is known as modern
architecture. He was Born in Switzerland in 1887, in 1930 he attained
french citizenship and in 1965 he died at the age of 77. Over the
course of his five-decade career, he designed buildings in North and
South America as well as Europe, Japan, and India.
Early Life
Le Corbusier was born on 6 October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds a
small city in north-western Switzerland. His father was an artisan
watchmaker, and his mother taught piano.
Le Corbusier had no official education in architecture. He was
drawn to the visual arts, and at the age of fifteen, he enrolled in the
cities municipal art school, which taught the applied arts related to
watchmaking. Later he attended the higher course of decoration
under Charles L'Eplattenier. He reported that it was the art teacher
L'Eplattenier who made him choose architecture.
Early Career
After designing his first house, in 1905, Le Corbusier took trips through central
Europe and the Mediterranean.
He also worked as a draftsman in the office of the architect Auguste Perret,
the pioneer of the use of reinforced concrete in residential construction.
In 1912, Le Corbusier returned to his home townto teach alongside
L'Eplattenier and to open his own architectural practice.
In 1918, Le Corbusier met Cubist painter Amédée Ozenfant, who encouraged
Le Corbusier to paint. Together they created the art style called Purism.
His Five Points Of Architecture
● Pilotis - Replacement of supporting walls by a grid of reinforced concrete
columns that bears the structural load
● Free Plan - Load-bearing walls are replaced by reinforced concrete columns,
so the interior can be freely designed, and interior walls can be put anywhere.
● Free Façade - Since the building is supported by columns in the interior, the
façade can be much lighter and more open or made entirely of glass.
● Ribbon Window - Long window which cuts the façade along its entire length,
lights rooms equally.
● Roof Garden - The sloping roof is replaced by a flat roof, so the roof can be
used as a garden and other domestic purposes.
All the above points can be understood by considering the example of Villa Savoye
in Poissy, France
Pilotis
Pilotis are a set of columns that raise the buildings above the ground level.
Free Plan
The building floor plan is free from structural constraints because of the Pilotis and
absence of load bearing supporting walls
Free Facade
The structural supports are set back from the facade allowing a free facade
Horizontal Ribbon Window
The facade is cut all the length for windows to allow the room to be lit evenly.
Roof Garden
It is a way to give back the natural space taken up the building by replacing it with a
garden at the top, also keeping the building cool in the process.
Villa Savoye in Poissy, France
Major Projects
UN Headquarters , USA Carpenter Center for the Sainte Marie de La Chandigarh City Plan and
Visual Arts, USA Tourette, France Buildings, India
Other Works
Modulor (standard LC4 Chaise Longue Purism Paintings Founder of CIAM
model of the human (Congrès Internationaux
form) d'Architecture Moderne)
Open Hand
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
● Cabanon ● Molitor House
● Chandigarh ● Ronchamp
● Cité Frugès ● Taito-Ku National Museum
● Curutchet House ● Unité de Marseille
● Saint-Dié Factory ● Villa le Lac
● Firminy ● Villa Savoye
● House Guiette ● Weissenhofsiedlung
● Immeuble Clarté Genf
● La Tourette
● Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret
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