Art History 282/682, Modern Architecture
Week 5, Class 3
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture
Le Corbusier, Vers un architecture, 1923
translated into English as Towards a New Architecture, 1927
Charles Edouard Jeanneret
Amédée Ozenfant
L'Esprit nouveau,
Le Corbusier, Maison Citrohan project, 1922
Citroën
Le Corbusier, Dom-ino structural system, 1914
Le Corbusier, Workers' Housing, Pessac, near Bourdeaux, France, 1924
Bordeaux industrialist Henri Frugès
Ebenezer Howard
Frederick Law Olmsted and others
machine à habiter or machine for living
From Vers un architecture: "We must create a mass-production spirit. The spirit of constructing mass-production houses. The spirit of living in mass-production houses. The spirit of conceiving mass-production houses. If we eliminate from our hearts and minds all dead concepts in regard to the houses and look at the question from a critical and objective point of view, we shall arrive at the 'House-Machine,' the mass-production house, healthy (and morally so, too) and beautiful in the same way that the working tools and instruments which accompany our existence are beautiful."
Le Corbusier, House and Studio for Amédée Ozenfant, Paris, 1923
Le Corbusier, Maison La Roche/Jeanneret, Paris, 1923-1924
Le Corbusier, L'Esprit Nouveau Pavilion, Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1925
reconstructed in Bologna, Italy, 1977
Art Deco
Le Corbusier, Maison Cook, Paris, 1926-1927
Le Corbusier, "Five Points of a New Architecture"
1. pilotis
2. ribbon window
3. free facade
4. roof garden
5. free plan
Le Corbusier, Villa Stein/de Monzie, Garches, France, 1926-1928
Gabrielle de Monzie and Michael and Sarah Stein
Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, "The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa," 1947
Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, Villa Foscari outside Venice, 1550-1560
architectural historian William Jordy
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1928-1931