Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, was a pioneering Swiss-French architect, designer, writer and urban planner. Some of his most famous works include the Villa Savoye in France, noted for its use of pilotis, roof garden, free plan and long windows; the Unité d'Habitation public housing building in Marseilles, France; and several landmark buildings in Chandigarh, India, the first planned city in the country. Throughout his career, Le Corbusier developed new approaches to architecture based on modern industrial materials and principles of functional design.

1. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
Le Corbusier
1887-1965
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2. OBJECTIVE
• TO STUDY ABOUT THE LIFE AND MAJOR
WORKS OF LE CORBUSIER.
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3. QUICK FACTS
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LE CORBUSIER (1933)
BORN: October 6, 1887
PLACE: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
DIED: August 27, 1965 (aged 77)
PLACE: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
NATIONALITY: Swiss / French (from 1930)
WORK,BUILDINGS: Villa Savoye, France
Notre Dame du Haut, France
Buildings in Chandigarh, India

4. EARLY LIFE 1/6
• Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as
Le Corbusier (French pronunciation: [lə
kɔʁbyzje]; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965),
was an architect, designer, urbanist and writer,
famous for being one of the pioneers of what
is now called modern architecture. He was
born in Switzerland and became a French
citizen in 1930
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5. EARLY LIFE 2/6
• He was born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-
Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small city in
Neuchâtel canton in north-western
Switzerland, in the Jura mountains, just 5
kilometres (3.1 mi) across the border from
France
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6. EARLY LIFE 3/6
• In his early years he would frequently escape the
somewhat provincial atmosphere of his hometown by
traveling around Europe.
• About 1907, he traveled to Paris, where he found work in
the office of Auguste Perret, the French pioneer of
reinforced concrete.
• In 1908, He studied architecture in Vienna with Josef
Hoffmann. Between October 1910 and March 1911, he
worked near Berlin for the renowned architect Peter
Behrens, where he might have met Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe and Walter Gropius.
• He became fluent in German. Both of these experiences
would prove influential in his later career.
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7. EARLY LIFE4/6
•Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym
in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in
part from the name of a distant
ancestor, "Lecorbésier."
•He was awarded the Frank P. Brown
Medal in 1961.
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8. EARLY LIFE 5/6
• After World War II, Le Corbusier attempted to realize his urban
planning schemes on a small scale by constructing a series of
"unités" (the housing block unit of the Radiant City) around France.
• The most famous of these was the Unité d'Habitation of Marseilles
(1946–1952).
• In the 1950s, a unique opportunity to translate the Radiant City on
a grand scale presented itself in the construction of the Union
Territory Chandigarh, the new capital for the Indian states of Punjab
and Haryana and the first planned city in India.
• Le Corbusier designed many administration buildings including a
courthouse, parliament building and a university. He also designed
the general layout of the city dividing it into sectors. Le Corbusier
was brought on to develop the plan of Albert Mayer.
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9. EARLY LIFE 6/6
• His early buildings were a disaster according
to climatic specifications of the site.
• Afterwards, he desinged buildings ,specifically
CONSIDERING climatic factors In mind.
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10. SOME OF HIS IDEAS
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11. THE GOLDEN RATIO
AND VITRUVIAN MAN
• Le Corbusier explicitly used
the golden ratio in his
Modulor system for the
scale of architectural
proportion
• . He saw this system as a
continuation of the long
tradition of Vitruvius,
Leonardo da Vinci's
"Vitruvian Man",
• The drawing of a man's
body in a pentagram
suggests relationships to
the golden ratio.[29]
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12. Human measurements and fibonacci
numbers
• In addition to the
golden ratio, Le
Corbusier based the
system on human
measurements,
Fibonacci numbers,
and the double unit.
A Fibonacci spiral created by
drawing circular arcs connecting
the opposite corners of squares in
the Fibonacci tiling; this one uses
squares of sizes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,
21, and 34.
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13. A chart from Bertillon's Identification
anthropométrique
demonstrating how to take
measurements for his identification
system.
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14. MAJOR WORKS
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15. MAJOR BUILDINGS 1/2
 Carpenter Center, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961 to 1964.
 Centre Le Corbusier, at Zurich, Switzerland, 1963 to 1967.
 Convent of La Tourette, at Eveux-sur-Arbresle, near Lyon, France,
1957 to 1960.
 House at Weissenhof, at Stuttgart, Germany, 1927.
Maisons Jaoul, at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France, 1954 to 1956.
 Museum at Ahmedabad, at Ahmedabad, India, 1953 to 1957.
 Notre-Dame-du-Haut, at Ronchamp, France, 1955.
 Ozenfant House and Studio, at Paris, France, 1922.
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16. MAJOR BUILDINGS 2/2
• Palace of Assembly, at Chandigarh, India, 1953 to 1963.
• Philips Pavilion, at Brussels, Belgium, 1958.
• Shodan House, at Ahmedabad, India, 1956.
• Unite d'Habitation, at Marseilles, France, 1946 to 1952.
• United Nations Headquarters, with others, at New York,
New York, 1947 to 1953.
• Villa Savoye, at Poissy, France, 1928 to 1929.
• Villa Stein, at Garches, France, 1927.
• Weekend house by Corbu, at suburb of Paris, France,
1935.
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17. MAJOR WRITTEN WORKS
• 1918: Après le cubisme (After Cubism), with Amédée Ozenfant
• 1923: Vers une architecture (Towards an Architecture) (frequently
mistranslated as "Towards a New Architecture")
• 1925: La Peinture moderne (Modern Painting), with Amédée
Ozenfant
• 1935: La Ville radieuse (The Radiant City)
• 1942: Charte d'Athènes (Athens Charter)
• 1948: Le Modulor (The Modulor)
• 1953: Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)
• 1955: Le Modulor 2 (The Modulor 2)
• 1959: Deuxième clavier de couleurs (Second Colour Keyboard)
• 1966: Le Voyage d'Orient (The Voyage to the East)
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18. MAJOR BUILDINGS
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19. The Open Hand
• The Open Hand (La Main Ouverte) is a
recurring motif in Le Corbusier's architecture,
a sign for him of "peace and reconciliation
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20. Villa Savoye
VILLA SAVOYE
LOCATION POISSY,PARIS,FRANCE
ARCHTECT LE CORBUSIER
BUILT 1928-1931
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21. Villa Savoye
• Corbusier's best known building from the 1920s, it had enormous
influence on international modernism.[14] It was designed
addressing his emblematic "Five Points", the basic tenets in his new
architectural aesthetic:[5]
• Support of ground-level pilotis, elevating the building from the
earth and allowed an extended continuity of the garden beneath.
• Functional roof, serving as a garden and terrace, reclaiming for
nature the land occupied by the building.
• Free floor plan, relieved of load-bearing walls, allowing walls to be
placed freely and only where aesthetically needed.
• Long horizontal windows, providing illumination and ventilation.
• Freely-designed facades, serving only as a skin of the wall and
windows and unconstrained by load-bearing considerations.
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24. VILLA SAVOY
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26. Villa Jeanneret
• Villa Jeanneret and Villa La
Roche are two houses in Paris.
• Rennovated by Charlotte
Perriand in 1928.
• The Villa Jeanneret was
commissioned by Le Corbusier's
brother and his fiancée.
• The program included a salon,
dining room, bedrooms, a study,
a kitchen, a maid's room and a
garage.
• The site faced north, and zoning
restrictions prevented windows
looking over the surrounding
back gardens
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VILLA JEANNERET
PLACE PARIS
ARCHITECT LE CORBUSIER
PERIOD 1923-1925

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28. VILLA JEANNERET-PERRET
VILLA JEANN ERET-PERRET
LOCATION SWITZERLAND
ARCHITECT LE CORBUSIER
COMPLETED 1912
•Also known as Maison blanche.
•Open to the public since 2005.
• was designed for his parents.
•witness to the pioneering architecture of the 20th century.
•his characteristic neo-classic style breaks with the regional Art Nouveau.
•and is based on his experience in Paris
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