Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965), known as Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.
Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Le Corbusier prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there, specially the government buildings.
He was also a visionary writer, theorist, and painter. He had a fascination with proportion, modularity, and geometry, often taking his cue from classical architecture theory. His designs, however, were modernist and industrial. He fondly called houses “machines for living in,” and said that the base principal for design is that “it must be beautiful.” Le Corbusier was interested in solving what he called the problem of urban co-habitation, and produced a great number of designs for houses and apartment buildings. Le Corbusier worked at the atelier of Peter Behrens, the training grounds of other architectural masters like Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.
In his lifetime, Le Corbusier made 7,000 works on paper and 450 oil paintings! He is credited with introducing a sense of order into Cubism, especially in relation to color. he developed a grid system for painting, organizing overlapping objects and planes, and keeping each patch of color distinct, avoiding “the visual muddiness that can result when patches of color run into each other.” Architecture meets art meets graphic design.
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Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Le Corbusier prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there, specially the government buildings.
He was also a visionary writer, theorist, and painter. He had a fascination with proportion, modularity, and geometry, often taking his cue from classical architecture theory. His designs, however, were modernist and industrial. He fondly called houses “machines for living in,” and said that the base principal for design is that “it must be beautiful.” Le Corbusier was interested in solving what he called the problem of urban co-habitation, and produced a great number of designs for houses and apartment buildings. Le Corbusier worked at the atelier of Peter Behrens, the training grounds of other architectural masters like Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.
In his lifetime, Le Corbusier made 7,000 works on paper and 450 oil paintings! He is credited with introducing a sense of order into Cubism, especially in relation to color. he developed a grid system for painting, organizing overlapping objects and planes, and keeping each patch of color distinct, avoiding “the visual muddiness that can result when patches of color run into each other.” Architecture meets art meets graphic design.
© 2019. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by la Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
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| Le Corbusiers glasses |
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| 1913, sketch |
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| 1920, still life |
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| 1922 Nature morte Indépendants |
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| 1922, Pale Still Life with Lantern |
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| 1923, Still Life with Numerous Objects |
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| 1930, Nature morte à la lanterne et à la cafetière |
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| 1934, Femme et barque |
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| 1936 Carton pour tapisserie |
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| 1936 Deux femmes étendues |
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| 1936, Femme lisant |
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| 1939 Chute de Barcelone II |
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| 1939 Two Women |
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| 1939, Chute de Barcelona sketch |
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| 1940, Abstract Composition |
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| 1943, the golden ratio in his Modulor system |
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| 1944, nature morte et figure |
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| 1945, Illustrations for the Modulor book |
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| 1945, Illustrations for the Modulor book |
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| 1946, proportion sketch |
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| 1948, Deux Femmes |
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| 1950, Bogota |
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| 1950, La Main Ouverte (The open hand) |
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| 1950, Modulor |
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| 1951 Annibal Simla |
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| 1953 Bull III |
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| 1953, I was dreaming (first version) |
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| 1954, Taureau VII |
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| 1954, Corde et verres |
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| 1955 The poem of the Right Angle plates |
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| 1955, Le poème de l'angle droit |
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| 1956, Le taureau |
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| 1957 Femme grise, homme rouge et os devant une porte |
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| 1957, Sketch, Notre Dame Du Haut |
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| 1958, Tapestry for the Sydney Opera House |
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| 1959 Chute de Barcelona study |
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| 1960 Chute de Barcelona |
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| 1960, Abraca |
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| 1960, Jeux (couleur) |
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| 1963, Totem |
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| 1964, La mer |
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| 1965, Femme en blanc |
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