AR. LE CORBUSIER BIOGRAPHY

• BORN- 6TH OCT 1887 IN SWITZERLAND• STUDIED AT LA CHAUX DE FONDE ART SCHOOL• BETWEEN 1918 AND 1922 CONCENRATION HIS

EFFORTS ON PURIST THEORY AND PAINTING• 1922 OPENED A STUDIO IN PARIS• DIED- 27TH AUG 1965 AT AGE OF 77

EARLY DAYS AND INSPIRATIONS

• IN HIS EARLY DAYS HE STUIDED MODERN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION UNDER AR.AUGUSTUS PERRET IN PARIS

• AUGUSTE PERRET WAS THE FIRST WHO INTRODUCED CONCRETE AND LE CORBUS IER FURTHER WORKED ON IT

• LE CORBUSIER UED CONCRETE TO FORM A STRUCTURAL WHOLE UNLIKE PERRET WHO VIEWED CONCRETE AS A SUPERIOR FORM OF CONSTRUCTION TO MASONRY

CONTRIBUTION TO ARCHITECTURE

• HE WAS THE PIONEER OF MODERISM IN ARCHITECTURE AND LAID FOUNDATION TO WHAT IS KNOWN AS BAUHAUS MOVEMENT OR INTERNATIONAL STYLE

• HE IS KNOWN FOR INNOVATION IN URBAN PLANNING AND HIS SOLUTIONS FOR LOW INCOME HOUSING

• DURING HIS LIFE TIME HE HAD PROJECTS IN RUSSIA, INDIA AND EUROPE AND USA

• HE FORMED THE FIVE POINTS OF ARCHITECTURE WHICH WERE THE QUIDING PRINCILPES FOR MANY ARCHITECTSDESIGN PRINCILPES OF LE CORB’S WORK

• MOSTLY,ALL OF HIS WORK WERE BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES • EARLIER BUILDING BY LE CORBUSIER WERE SMOOTH WHITE CONCRETE AND

GLASS STRUCTURES ELEVATED ABOVE THE GROUND HE CALLED THESE WORK PURE PRISM

• IN LATE 1940S,LE CORBUSIER TURNED TO A STYLE KNOWN AS NEW BRUTALISM WHICH USED ROUGH HEAVY FORM OF STONE, CONCRETE STUCCO AND GLASSSIGNATURE DESIGN ASPECTS OF LE CORBUSIER

• FREE STANDING SUPPORT PILLARS• OPEN FLOOR PLAN OF INDEPENDENT OF SUPPORT• VERTICAL FACADES FREE OF SUPPORTS• LONG HORIZONTAL SLIDING WINDOWS• ROOF GARDENS

THE MODULARTHE MODULAR WAS A SYSTEM OF PROPORTIONING WORKED OUT BY LE CORBUSIER ESSENTIALLY THE MODULAR IS A SERIES OF PROPORTIONS NOT UNLIKE THE GOLDEN SECTION USED BY ANCIENT GREEKS. BASED ON THE MEASUREMENTS OF A SIX-FOOT MAN IN VARIOUS POSITIONS, STANDING , SITTING, LYING DOWN ETC. TWO SERIES OF MEASUREMENTS WERE DEVELOPED, THE ONE DERIVED FROM A STANDING FIGURE, THE OTHER FROM A FIGURE WITH AN ARM UPRAISED.

PLANNED AND UNPLANNED CITYJAIPUR CITY X PUNE CITY

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