LE CORBUSIER

Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland, although he studied and worked primarily in France. In 1909, He attended the Deutsche Werkbund Congress in Berlin and acquired a new perspective on the relationship between art and modern industrial production, which took him even further from his earlier Arts and Crafts years. Deeply impressed by Peter Behrens’s AEG Turbine Factory, he worked for five months in his studio, alongside Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. He met Amédée Ozenfant in 1918, and they established a new art movement called Purism. Together they published the Purist journal L’Esprit Nouveau . In 1922, Le Corbusier presented an urban design plan called Immeubles Villas. Le Corbusier’s belief that modern architectural planning could raise the quality of life for city inhabitants. In 1929, Le Corbusier began to work on theVilla Savoy . This residence provided a clear example of Le Corbusier’s five points of architecture, which had been published in L’Esprit Nouveau and his 1923 book with Ozenfant called Toward an Architecture . The Villa Savoye is also considered to be an excellent example of the International style, an architectural style that also represented the beginning decades of the Modern movement. Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , and Walter Gropius were considered to be the pioneers of the International style. In 1935, Le Corbusier published a book on urbanism called The Radiant City. After World War II, Le Corbusier used the ideas in his book to create housing blocks around France, such as the Unite d’Habitation of Marseilles . He also designed the first planned city in India called Chandigarh. Not only did Le Corbusier design the overall layout of the city in the 1950s, but he also designed several administration buildings in Chandigarh, such as the parliament building, a university, a courthouse, and some furniture as well. The artist died on August 27, 1965.