Le Corbusier’s scientific contributions

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Publications (60)


Towards an Architecture: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts
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September 2017

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Le Corbusier

Villa für M. und S. Stein und G. de Monzie 1926–1928

January 1992

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Die Beziehungen zwischen der Architektur und der Landschaft aus den ersten Skizzen, die noch eine sehr große Ähnlichkeit mit der freien Gestaltung der Villa La Roche-Jeanneret aufweisen, werden bei der endgültigen Ausführung zugunsten der Wiederaufnahme einiger Regeln des Entwurfs sublimiert: Die konstruktiven Achsen folgen dem Rhythmus 2-1-2-1-2; an der Hauptfassade, deren Komposition durch Diagonalen bestimmt wird, folgt die Höhe der Wandstreifen zwischen den Fensterbändern dem Verhältnis 1:2:4; auf der Rückseite ist der Boden am Treppenfuß so angehoben, daß die geometrische Projektion der Geländerdiagonale, die parallel zur Diagonale der Hauptfassade verläuft, auf eine der konstruktiven Achsen des Grundrisses trifft. Länge und Breite des Dachgartens schließlich sind nach dem Goldenen Schnitt berechnet.


Villa für Pierre Savoye 1928–1931

January 1992

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Es handelt sich hier um eine Sommerresidenz für die Familie Savoye, von der sich sehr bald erweisen sollte, daß sie nur schwer zu nutzen war. Diese Villa bildet den Höhepunkt der gleichsam feierlichen Phase des Purismus. Die ungelösten Spannungen zwischen konstruktiver und kompositorischer Ordnung einerseits und dem Aufkommen der funktionalistischen Themenstellungen andererseits sind deutlich spürbar. In diesem Sinne kommt dem Entwurf des Erdgeschosses mit den pilotis sowie der verglasten und gekrümmten Außenwand fast programmatische Bedeutung zu. Im Werk und im Denken von Le Corbusier sollte dieser Aspekt eine einzigartige Weiterentwicklung erfahren.


Schweizer Pavillon in der Cité Universitaire 1930–1933

January 1992

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Der Schweizer Pavillon bildet einen Markstein bei der Überwindung des frühen Purismus. Das Programm der „Fünf Punkte für eine neue Architektur“ findet hier auch in konstruktiv-technischer Hinsicht einen vollendeten Ausdruck: Auf einer Betondecke, die von pilotis bisher nicht bekannter Maße und Formen getragen wird, die aber hier ihre Berechtigung in der besonderen Geländeformation finden, erhebt sich eine tragende Stahlkonstruktion, deren Achsmaße denen der Zimmer entspricht. Das Interesse für die konstruktiven Möglichkeiten des Stahls kann man als unmittelbaren Ausdruck von Le Corbusiers ganz persönlicher Interpretation einiger technischer und gestalterischer Aspekte der «Maison de verre» ansehen. Die Vorstudien unterstreichen dies.


Hôtels particuliers R. La Roche, L. Raaf und A. Jeanneret 1923–1925

January 1992

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Die Vorstudien beziehen sich auf ein anderes Vorhaben als dasjenige, das dann im Sommer 1923 präzisiert wird (zwei aneinander grenzende Wohnhäuser, von denen das eine mit einer Galerie für Ausstellungszwecke versehen ist). Seinerzeit nahm Le Corbusier persönlich Kontakt mit den Käufern auf: Lotti Raaf, die im Juni seinen Bruder heiratete, und der Bankier Raoul La Roche, ein Sammler von puristischer und kubistischer Malerei.



Immeuble Clarté 1931

December 1987

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This chapter focuses on Immeuble Clarté, which is an apartment building with some professional offices. Public areas of this building are visitable. The Immeuble Clarté was Le Corbusier's first commission for a multiple dwelling and consequently, an experimental attempt to realize some of the housing principles from both his initial and emerging city schemes within the context of a preexisting urban fabric. The organization of the apartments along a horizontal slab conforms to the precepts and aesthetic of a Radiant City. The procession through the building moves from the shadowed lobby, with its classically placed columns, toward the essential joy of light to be found at the top of the skylit stairwell and in the apartments. Access to the apartments from a central interior corridor allows the units on both sides of the building to face uninterruptedly onto the balconies. The client for the Immeuble Clarté, the metals manufacturer Edmond Wanner, encouraged Le Corbusier to think in terms of standardization and prefabrication. Clarté is the first building in which Le Corbusier used a structural steel frame.


Maison Guiette 1926

December 1987

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This chapter focuses on Maison Guiette situated in Antwerp. Maison Guiette was a demonstration of the new aesthetic and functional freedoms provided by the concrete frame structure. Nonbearing walls are free to curve and to have large openings. On the interior, they become curving, streamlined containers for efficient bathrooms, like ship or plane cabins. On the exterior, their continuous horizontal openings bring light and air deep into the house. The concrete frame also generates a flat roof slab that supports a garden. Far from the grime of the street, this terrace replaces the ground lost to the building's foundations. The balanced asymmetry of the windows and balconies at Maison Guiette owes something to De Stijl compositions of the period; however, the insistent cubic volume of the house is particular to Le Corbusier. Most of the geometric play concerns the relation of front to back rather than the house as an object in the round. The strip window below the balcony suggests a similar, horizontal slot of space. The front studio window describes both a void cube above the balcony and a plane of glass that passes continuously from the top to the bottom of the building.


Pavillon Suisse 1932

December 1987

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This chapter focuses on Pavillon Suisse, situated in Paris. The building is a dormitory. Despite its small size and limited budget, the Swiss Pavilion emerged as a major work in terms of both Le Corbusier's own development and the influence it exerted on the Modern movement. The influence of the Pavilion derives from its organization. Each part of the building is a statement of several themes, including material, form, and social program. Together, they fulfill the agenda of the linear apartment blocks of Le Corbusier's Utopian Radiant City. The dormitory has the form of a section of the Radiant apartment slab. The curved volumes house the communal facilities. The students occupy individual cells along the south side of single-loaded corridors. The glass skin sheathing the rooms is conceived as a biotechnical machine for providing them with light, air, and view. The side walls are blank, suggesting that the slab is but a fragment of a possible Utopian environment.


Apartment House with Le Corbusier's apartment at Porte Molitor 1933

December 1987

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This chapter focuses on the Apartment House at Porte Molitor, situated in Paris, which according to Le Corbusier's own statements is as much a fragment of his Radiant City (Ville Radieuse) as a building within the fabric of Paris can be. It is an attempt to present the elements of the new urbanism—sky, green, glass, cement, in that order of importance. Originally, the building lot had the gardens of Boulogne to its rear and an athletic park on the site of ancient fortifications in front. In this greenery, Le Corbusier inserted a concrete structural frame sheathed in a composite curtain wall of glass and glass block to ensure the penetration of light and air deep into the building. Despite the utopian premise, the apartment facade is probably the most traditionally contextual of Le Corbusier's mature work. Strict zoning codes specified parapet height, conformance to the established street wall, and even the placement of balconies and bay windows.


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... ARCHITECTURE is the art par excellence, one that attains a state of Platonic grandeur, mathematical order, speculation, perception of harmony through stirring formal relationships. 45 This contradiction is due to the difficulty faced by modernists in their attempt to challenge the nineteenth-century idealist approach to aesthetics in architecture. According to Panayotis Tournikiotis, the idea that responding to practical needs is a different task in comparison with addressing artistic qualities is exemplified in the theories of aesthetics by Heinrich Wölfflin, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Sigfried Giedion 46 and propagates the premises of German [4] consisted of servants' quarters on the ground floor, living quarters on the first floor, and three rooms on the second floor. ...

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The architect, the resident, and a murder: the case of a house by Aris Konstantinidis
Towards an Architecture: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts
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... The current solutions for active façades have their most interesting precedent in the technological innovations introduced by Le Corbusier in the first third of the twentieth century with the mur neutralisant, combined with respiration exacte, planned in the City of Refuge in Paris [1]. These innovations were only partially executed [2], and may have failed because they were burdened from the initial design stage, economically, and by the lack of simulation tools allowing relatively reliable prediction of indoor temperature. ...

Cité de Refuge (l'Armée du Salut) 1933
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... Similarly, spatial-temporal regularity within behavioral trajectories was found in mobile phone users, suggesting that individuals can be clustered into different groups based on their behavioral patterns (Song et al., 2010). Others have used LBS to characterize individual trajectories across the city, showing collective behavior and "flocking" patterns (Ratti and Berry, 2007). Calabrese et al. (2014) also attempted to predict future mobility trajectories of individuals, resulting in a $60% success rate. ...

Sense of the City: Wireless and the Emergence of Real-Time Urban Systems
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... Isso levou à concentração de população em áreas de risco, como encostas íngremes, margens de rios e zonas costeiras suscetíveis a inundações e tempestades. Essas condições tornam as cidades do Sul Global particularmente vulneráveis aos impactos das mudanças climáticas, incluindo o aumento da frequência e intensidade de eventos climáticos extremos (Corbusier, 2023;Santos, 2006). ...

Cómo concebir el urbanismo / Le Corbusier
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... La idea de cerramiento continuo de vidrio insinuada en el rascacielos cruciforme buscaba garantizar el bienestar de sus usuarios sustituyendo la utilización de muros y ventilación natural mediante el uso de grandes placas de vidrio (denominadas por el arquitecto como mur neutralisant y pan de verre) y el auxilio de los medios mecánicos (la respiration exacte) justi cando su existencia en la necesidad de evitar el contacto con el aire metropolitano viciado por la polución y el smog. Le Corbusier comenzará a desarrollar esta idea, según su propio relato, desde 1916, por un lado, a partir de los experimentos del "primer investigador del tema en Europa" el director de la compañía de vidrios Saint Gobain, Gustave Lyon, cuyos "estudios, empezados largo tiempo atrás, fueron independientes de las tentativas que también se hacían en los Estados Unidos para proveer aire puro" (Le Corbusier, 1948). Por el otro, durante 1927, con el proyecto del Palacio de las Naciones mediante el desarrollo de "paredes neutralizantes" (mur neutralisant) y en 1929, a través de la idea de pan de verre (panel de vidrio o lo que se traducirá como "muro cortina") un sistema conformado por dos vidrios entre los cuales se haría circular aire en la cámara hasta lograr en ella una temperatura constante, "aire exacto, " para equilibrar las condiciones exteriores. ...

Cuando las catedrales eran blancas : viaje al país de los tímidos / Le Corbusier
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... Deberíamos traer aquí, durante una primavera y un verano, a los alumnos de una gran escuela […] Esos inminentes arquitectos descubrirían, entusiasmados, la verdadera arquitectura que se adueñaría de sus corazones y sus mentes. Año tras año, equipo tras equipo estudiarían granjas, pueblos y ciudades, de norte a sur del país (LeCorbusier, 1972, p.140).7 Los proyectos para Argel comenzaron en 1931 y terminaron en 1942. Le Corbusier publicó los materiales de La Ville Radieuse en Plans (Themes préparatoires á l'action. ...

Por las cuatro rutas / Le Corbusier
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... Given the circumstances, large-scale urban developments based on high-rise residential buildings as a mix of commercial, public service, residential and recreational space were seen as time and cost effective to respond to the rapid urbanisation by the Korean government in the 1960s. This was brought by combining the modernist ideology of standardised quality and mass production based on modern technology by Le Corbusier (1960) and the concept of the neighbourhood unit as a self-contained community conceived by Perry (1929). Since then, they were proliferated throughout the country by involving large construction companies called chaebols (Korean multinational conglomerates, such as Hyundai, Samsung, Daewoo and LG). ...

Creation is a patient search / Le Corbusier [seud.]
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... El reconocimiento de la eficacia del pensamiento fordista por parte de Le Corbusier queda patente en su explicación de la génesis de 'La Fábrica Verde': "La 'cadena' califica, en efecto, un verdadero sistema impuesto a las fabricaciones para intentar la parcelación de todas las 11 También pudieron ser inspiración el Edificio Daily Express de Londres de sir Owen Williams inserto en una trama urbana consolidada y la fábrica Fiat Lingotto en Turín, con su ciclo productivo también completo pero ascendente, igualmente visitada y por la que arquitecto confesó admiración. etapas" 13 . Una aplicación consecuente se rastrea en la estructuración organizativa del programa para Claude y Duval segregada por plantas con distintas alturas según sus funciones. ...

El urbanismo de los tres establecimientos humanos / Le Corbusier.
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... Los criterios para el ordenamiento territorial son extraídos de los tres establecimientos humanos de Le Corbusier (1978), en función del cual se definió el rol de cada sitio para favorecer el equilibrio regional, donde la noción de ciudad lineal se observa en el modo de organización de los centros poblacionales, rodeados por zonas de cultivo y vinculadas a través del ferrocarril. Esta referencia también se explicita en la Figura 1 en la que se compara el modelo territorial provincial existente en 1960 con la propuesta de núcleo lineal industrial. ...

Hacia una arquitectura / Le Corbusier
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