Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) was visionary writer, theorist, and architect, and painter. Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, he adopted his moniker when he began to author architectural designs and paintings. He had a fascination with proportion, modularity, and geometry, often taking his cue from classical architecture theory.
Le Corbusier 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.
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.
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| Le Corbusiers glasses. © Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris. |
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| Voyage Le Corbusier, circa 1911 |
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| A villa, circa 1916 |
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| Pale Still Life with Lantern, circa 1922 |
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Nature morte et figure, circa 1927-44
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| Femme grise, homme rouge et os devant une porte, circa 1931 |
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| Carton pour tapisserie, Marie Cuttoli, circa 1936 |
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| Femme lisant, circa 1936 |
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| Chute de Barcelone sketch, circa 1939 |
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| Chute de Barcelone, circa 1939 |
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| Chute de Barcelone II, circa 1939 |
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| Deux femmes, circa 1930 |
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| Deux femmes étendues, circa 1940 |
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| Deux Femmes, circa 1948 |
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| Modulor, circa 1948 |
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| Bogota, circa 1950 |
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| La Main Ouverte, circa 1950 |
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| Annibal Simla, circa 1951 |
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| I was dreaming, circa 1953 |
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| Bull III, circa 1953 |
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| Corde et verres, circa 1954 |
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Le Poème de l'Angle droit, circa 1955 Tériade, Paris
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| The poem of the Right Angle plates 6, circa 1955 |
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| Taureau, circa 1956 |
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| Le Cortege, circa 1960 |
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| Les dés sont jetés, circa 1960 |
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| Snake Ranch Bauhaus Movement MODULOR, circa 1956 |
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| Femme en blanc, circa 1965 |
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| Renacentist Square, n.d. |
Absolutely great!
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