2. • CHARLES EDOUARD JEANNERET NOW POPULARLY
KNOWN AS LE CORBUSIER
• HE AS A CHILD PREPARED HIMSELF FOR A MANUAL
OCCUPATION
• HE LEFT HIS SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 13½ YRS
• JOINED AN La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School LATER
Le Corbusier
October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965)
French architect .
designer.
Urbanist
writer and
painter,
3. 1.HE STARTED WORKING UNDER
CONTRACTER PERRET, LE
CORBUSIER’S SO CALLED MASTER
1. His own architectural practice with
his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret
(1896–1967), a partnership that
would last until 1940.
CONTRACTER PERRET
4. PHILOSOPHY OF LE CORBUSIER
• NO MATTER HOW OPEN & GREEN CITY SHOULD BE FRANKLY
URBAN,URBAN SURROUNDINGS ARE TO BE DEFINITELY
CONTRASTING WITH RURAL SURROUNDING.
• DENSITIES ARE IN THEMSELVES NOT A PROBLEM.CONJESTION &
SLUM CONDITION IN THE CITIES ARE DUE TO EXCESSIVE
COVERAGE,PERSISTENT OF OLD STREET PATTERN &
UNRESTRICTED LAND SPECULATION.
• SLUM EXIST BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE PROPER
SURROUNDING FOR HIGH DENSITY LIVING STILL PROVIDING FOR
CLASSIFIED STREET SYSTEM,PARKING AREA,ADEQUATE OPEN
SPACES FOR PARK,SPORTS FIELD & COMMUNITY CENTER.
• HE PROTEST AGAINST STRICT FUNCTIONALISM “HUMAN CREATIONS
THAT SURVIVES ARE THOSE WHICH PRODUCE EMOTIONS & NOT
THOSE WHICH ARE USEFUL”.
5. •, ADVOCATED CONSTRUCTION OF MULTI STORIED BUILDING FOR
BOTH RESIDENTIAL & RECREATIONAL PURPOSE.
•HE PROTESTED AGAINST THE CONJESTION & UGLINESS OF CITY.
•HE PROTESTS AGAINST THE INABILTY OF SOCIETY TO MUSTER
THE FORCES OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS IN THE CAUSE OF
URBAN ORGANISATION.
•THE IDEAL DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN BUILT UP & OPEN AREA
ACCORDING TO LE CORBUSIER FOR A CITY SHOULD BE :
•12 % FOR BUILDINGS
•REST 88 % OPEN LAND
• BUSINESS BUILDINGS 60 STORIES ONE QUARTER MILE
AWAY.
• RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX 8 STORIES WITH 120 PERSON
PER ACRE.
• FACTORY BUILDINGS OUTSIDE THE CITY.
• SINGLE HOUSES FOR FAMILY AT THE OUTSKIRT OF THE
8. One of the most famous houses of the modern
movement in architecture, the Villa Savoye is a
masterpiece of LeCorbusier's purist design. It is
perhaps the best example of LeCorbusier's goal to
create a house which would be a "machine a
habiter," a machine for living (in). Located in a
suburb near Paris, the house is as beautiful and
functional as a machine.
The building looks different from every angle.
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9. The villa was designed addressing Le Corbusier emblematic "Five Points", the basic
tenets in his new architectural aesthetic:
1. Support of ground-level pilots elevating the building from the earth and allowed an
extended continuity of the garden beneath.
2. Functional roof, serving as a garden and terrace, reclaiming for nature the land
occupied by the building.
3. Free floor plan, relieved of load-bearing walls, allowing walls to be placed freely
and only where aesthetically needed.
4. Long horizontal windows, providing illumination and ventilation.
5. Freely-designed facades, serving as only as a skin of the wall and windows and
unconstrained by load-bearing considerations
10. Support of ground-level pilots elevating the
building from the earth and allowed an
extended continuity of the garden beneath
11. Functional roof, serving as a garden
and terrace, reclaiming for nature the land
occupied by the building.
