LECTURE 9: LE CORBUSIER(CHARLES-EDUOARD JEANNERET): THE MODERN HOUSE AND THE MODERN CITY-

Dom-ino project, 1914

Villa Schwob, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1916

Citrohan projects, 1920

Ozenfant house, Paris, 1922

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Pg164 -exploitation of the cantilever principle - became central instrument of Le Corbusier’s urbanism & architetcture

Pg166 -made from re-inforced concrete armature -flat roof -FLW’s spacious interior -symmetrical & proportion -classical sense -combination of curves + rectangular forms -classical type within ‘modern’ work

Pg170 -intend using mass-production process to solve housing crisis of post war yrs -white box on stilt -flat roof , planar, rectangular window -re-inforced concrete concrete column/pilotis -building as a whole , uninterrupted spans of interior -idea of mass production dwelling

Pg- -factory windows - saw-teethed industrial skylight thrust into domestic setting -white wash cubic dwelling

Ville Contemporaine (Contemporary City) 1922

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Pavilion L'Esprit Nouveau, Paris, 1925

Maison La Roche, Paris,1923

Pg-174 -a city skysrapper in a park where techniques of modern construction , automobiles & aeroplanes brought together in an ordered diagram - with nature and machine reconciled and harmonised -technology as progressive force, reinstate a natural & harmonic order

Pg-174 -pavillion in a form of apartment (similar to citrohan)

Pg-172 -roof garden - display Le’s purist and cubist works of art -curved element lifted free of the ground in slender pilotis -overhang balconies -windows are set flush with façade plane -industrial extraction -le’s thinking – entire modern city should be lifted up a level leaving circulation for car -long horizontal strip windows & planar wall help engender feeling of weightlessness

Maison Stein, Garches, 1927

Pg-275 -touches old theme of villa design -rectangular block rendered weightless by horizontal band of white wall& strips of glazing -lower level has variety of openings cuts into it -entrance surmounted by canopy – recall the wings of an aeroplane -no piloti insight -a symmetrical devided block 2:1:2:1:2 rhythm A more fluid & fluent visual language than his earlier purism -curves work, spiralling movement -new style based on principles drawn from the past