Of the many structures completed by Le Corbusier in his early period, none is more successful in demonstrating his five points of architecture than the Villa Savoye , completed in Raising the main living spaces off the ground, the lowest floor features a swooping curve designed to accommodate the turning circle of a car, while the roof can be accessed by a ramp.
During the s and the Second World War, Le Corbusier completed fewer buildings than in his fertile early years, but the end of the war saw an explosion in commissions. By now, however, he was working in a very different style to the smooth, machine-like modernism of the s, favoring exposed concrete and monumental scale.
Throughout his career, alongside his architectural work Le Corbusier was a fierce and radical campaigner for new visions of modernist urban planning. Le Corbusier has also been widely criticized for the political connections he kept in his attempts to realize his plans , working alongside the Vichy government of France and accepting an invitation to lecture in Rome from Benito Mussolini.
In the s, Le Corbusier was finally able to realize a synthesis of his architectural and urban planning visions when he was invited to complete the design of Chandigarh, the new capital of the state of Punjab in India. He helped form the basis of almost all modernist architecture and urban planning, with almost all contemporary theory essentially acting as a continuation of, or a rejection of, his ideals.
Find out more about Le Corbusier's works via the thumbnails below, and more about his influence on architecture via the links below those:. Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms. Change country. Log out. Share Share Facebook. About this author. Vanessa Quirk. Tags Articles. Read comments. Did you know? He defaced the walls of her landmark home with eight sexually suggestive murals.
Because of his greater fame, the French government elected to preserve his murals. The architect was appointed to a committee studying urbanism. He drew up a plan for the redesign of Algiers. Much to his chagrin it was ignored. In , Le Corbusier designed the master plan for the first planned city in post-independence India, called Chandigarh, and built numerous administrative buildings there throughout the s. The design was extremely influential in city planning circles, especially in the former Soviet Union, but has been criticized for having too many giant, bland buildings and a layout that is unfriendly to pedestrians.
After Yvonne Le Corbusier died, in , her widowed husband kept a macabre reminder of her close at hand. One of Yvonne's vertebrae had remained intact after her cremation, and the architect shuttled it between his back pocket and his work desk for the next eight years. In , Le Corbusier died while taking a long swim in the Mediterranean against his doctor's orders.
Bathers spotted the year-old architect struggling to clamber up the rocks to get out of the water, but he dismissed their offers of help. It is believed he had a heart attack; his body later washed up on shore. He is buried next to Yvonne under concrete marker reminiscent of an architectural model. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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