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LE CORBUSIER BIOGRAPHY.

BORN

  Le Corbusier was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in Switzerland on October 6, 1887.

DIED

  Death August 27, 1965 (77 years) Switzerland

FAMILY OR OCUPATIONS.

Le Corbusier was the second son of Edouard Jeanneret, an artist who painted dials in the town’s

renowned watch industry, and Madame Jeannerct-Perrct, a musician and piano teacher. His

family's Calvinism, love of the arts and enthusiasm for the Jura Mountains, where his family fled

during the Albigensian Wars of the 12th century, were all formative influences on the young Le

Corbusier.

STUDIES.

At age 13, Le Corbusier left primary school to attend Arts Décoratifs at La Chaux-de-Fonds, where

he would learn the art of enameling and engraving watch faces, following in the footsteps of his

father.There, he fell under the tutelage of L’Eplattenier, whom Le Corbusier called “my master”

and later referred to him as his only teacher. L’Eplattenier taught Le Corbusier art history, drawing

and the naturalist aesthetics of art nouveau. Perhaps because of his extended studies in art,

Corbusier soon abandoned watchmaking and continued his studies in art and decoration,

intending to become a painter. L’Eplattenier insisted that his pupil also study architecture, and he

arranged for his first commissions working on local projects.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS PROYECT.

 

The ground floor on stilts:

 

The open floor: from the independent structure, leveraging technology generates

reinforced concrete structure supporting pillars in the slabs.

 

The free facade: the corollary of free plane in the vertical plane. Lags structure of the

facade

 

Lengthened the window

 

The Garden: Le Corbusier for the area occupied by the nature of housing should be

returned in a garden on the roof of the building.

PROYECTS

Casa de Amédée Ozenfant (1922, París)

Casa Cook (1926, Boulogne-sur-Seine)

Villa Stein (1927, Garches)

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Villa Saboye (1929, Poissy)

Pabellón suizo de la ciudad universitaria (1930-1933, París)

Ministerio de Educación Nacional (1936-1943, Río de Janeiro, en colaboración con Lúcio Costa)

Ministerio de Cultura (1936-1943, Río de Janeiro, en colaboración con Lucio Costa)

Unidades de habitación (1947-1952, Marsella; 1952-1957, Nantes-Rezé; 1955-1960, Briey; 1957, Berlín)

Capilla de Notre-Dame-du-Haut (1950-1955, Ronchamp)

Capitolio (1950-1962, Chandigarh)

Centro cultural (1956, Ahmadabad)

Pabellón brasileño de la ciudad universitaria (1959, París; en colaboración con Lucio Costa)

Convento de la Tourette (1957-1960, Evreux)

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (1964, Universidad de Harvard).

MOST IMPORTANT WORK.

VILLA SAVOYE 1931 PALACIO DE JUSTICIA 1956

NOTRE DAME DE HAUT 1954

CASA DE SUIZA

ACUARDS.

From his formative years, his conception of

architecture was always attached to art. At

age 20 he built his first house, Villa Fallet, in

his hometown, before settling in Paris,

made a trip to Italy and Vienna formation.

It was the capital of the Seine where he

adopted his stage name in order to signtheir provocative articles in the journal

L'Esprit Nouveau founded by the poet Paul

Dermée and Cubist painter Amédée

Ozenfant. Here mixed his drawings of