LE CORBUSIER

1. SHEIKH TANZEEL
D-15-AR-35
“PIONEER OF MODERN
ARCHITECTURE”
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)

2. Charles-Édouard
Jeanneret-Gris aka Le
Corbusier was a Swiss-born
French architect.
1907 – worked under
Auguste Perrete at Paris.
1908 – studied architecture
at Vienna.
During World War I he
came up with Domino
house.
BIOGRAPHY

3. 1918 – 1922 - developed
Purist painting with
Ozenfant.
Partnering with his cousin,
they made a series of villas.
He viewed house as “a
machine for living in”.
Delved into city planning
and designed Chandigarh.
Died while swimming in
Mediterrenean sea on 1965.
BIOGRAPHY

4. IDEAS

5. IDEAS
 The Modular:
 Use of Golden ratio for the scale of architectural proportion.
 Use of human measurements, Fibonacci series and the double
unit.
○ E.g..:- 1927 Villa Stein, Graches.
 Placed system of harmony
and proportion at the centre of his design philosophy.
 Furniture:
“Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois”
 Started experimenting in 1928.
VILLA STEIN

6. influence
 Most influential in the sphere of urban planning.
 City of the future – large apartment buildings isolated in a park like setting on
pilotis.
19th 20th Heavily influenced by problems he saw in industrial cities at the turn of
century.
to
 Leader of the modernist movement to create better living conditions & a better
society through housing concepts.

7. ARCHITECTURE CAREER
 During 1920’s – realized his first mature architecture in a series of villas.
 Foundation of architecture – Dom-ino House (1914-1915)
 Proposed an open floor plan consisting of concrete slabs supported by a minimal number of thin,
reinforced concrete columns around the edges, with a stairway providing access to each level on one
side of the floor plan.
DOM-INO HOUSE

8. Maj or Pr oj ect s

9. UN Headquarters
Architects :
Le Corbusier
Oscar Niemeyer

10. Assembly Hall
Golden Ratio

11. Aerial
View
Chandigarh City

14. Unité d'Habitation
Le Corbusier attempted to
realize his urban planning
schemes on a small scale by
constructing a series of "unités"
around France.
The most famous of these was
the Unité d'Habitation of
Marseilles (1946–1952).

15. Nôtre Dame du Haut
Ronchamp, France

16. Roof shell
on
columns

17. Diffused Light
Light Tower

18. Abstract Fountain

19. Case Study
Villa
Savoye

20.  Location: Poissy, France
Date: 1928 to 1929
Construction System:
Reinforced Concrete and
plastered unit masonry
Climate: Temperate
Style: Modern
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21. ‘The reinforced concrete gives us the pilotis. The house is
up in the air, far from the ground: the garden runs under
the house...’

22. e
loor
cades
ht
'The columns set back from
th
facades, inside the house. The f
continues cantilevered. The fa
are no longer anything but lig
skins of insulating walls or
windows. The facade is free.'

23. 'The window is one of
the essential features of
the house. Reinforced
concrete provides a
revolution in the history
of the window.
Windows can run from
one end of the facade
to the other.'

24. '...the garden is also over the house, on the roof...’

25. Ground Floor Plan

26. First Floor Plan

27. Section Draw ngSection Drawing

28. Ramp and Stairs

29. Interior Views

30. Presented By:
Ebad-Ullah Khan
Tanzeel Sheikh
Anousha Saleem
Murtaza Baig
Iqra Nawaz