"El París de Le Corbusier" analiza las relaciones duales entre la ciudad y el arquitecto: la dialéctica entre la ciudad real - el París donde vivía- y la ciudad ideal - el París abstracto que ...proyectaba-. Intenta confrontar ambos mundos para entenderlos mejor. París es ocasión para comprender a Le Corbusier; Le Corbusier es ocasión para estudiar París. Ninguno de los dos factores quiere primar sobre el otro._x000D__x000D_Le Corbusier encarna la dinámica del siglo XX en París. Es ahí donde vive la mayor parte de su vida, donde piensa, donde escribe, donde proyecta. La ciudad de Le Corbusier es el lugar de la realidad y el lugar de la utopía. Sus propuestas: la Villa Radieuse, la Ville Contemporaine, son a la vez un gesto profético y una imagen poética._x000D__x000D_La confluencia de sus ideales con la realidad de París plantea un diálogo enriquecedor, cuyo desarrollo se expone en este libro a través de un discurso secuencial: Édouard, Jeanneret y Le Corbusier, atendiendo al descubrimiento de París por Édouard, a la dialéctica que París, provocador de energías, establece con Jeanneret, y al París de las propuestas de Le Corbusier, haciendo de ellas una travesía poética y un encuentro vital. Pues Le Corbusier no sólo quiso proyectar la Ville Radieuse sino también vivir en ella.
While Le Corbusier's urban projects are generally considered confrontational in their relationship to the traditional urban fabric, his proposal for the Venice hospital project remained an exercise ...in preserving the medieval fabric of the city of Venice through a systemic replication of its urban tissue. This book offers a detailed study of Le Corbusier's Venice hospital project as a plausible built entity. In addition, it analyses it in the light of its supposed affinity with the medieval urban configuration of the city of Venice. No formal attempt to date has been made to critically analyse the hospital project's design considerations in comparison to the medieval urban configuration of the city of Venice. Using a range of methodologies including those from architectural theory and history, using archival resources, on-site analysis, and interviews with important resource persons, this book is an interpretation of the conceptual basis for Le Corbusier understanding of the structural formulation of the city of Venice as mentioned in The Radiant City (1935). In doing so, it deciphers the diagrammatic analysis of the city structure found in this work into a set of coherent design modules that were applied in the hospital project and that could become a point of further investigation. Architects and other architecturally interested laypeople with an interest in Venice will find the book a valuable addition to their knowledge. For architectural historians the book makes an important link between modernism and the historically grown Venice.
Dr Mahnaz Shah is a Lecturer in Design Theory at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Contents: Foreword, Robert Maxwell; Foreword, Tim Benton; Introduction; History of the project; The urban context; Analysis of the project; Important findings; Table of important events; Bibliography; Index.
The Le Corbusier Guide presents the architecture of Le Corbusier. The focus is on Paris given that it is his adopted city and the place where he came of age. Within its environs is a representative ...sample of his built work. It contains most of his purist houses, and an early foray away from the crisp surfaces of Purism. This itinerary follows the outlines of Le Corbusier's life's work. Beginning at his birthplace in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the route continues to Paris, to the perimeter of France, and finally to the international scene architects, architecture, Paris. Also presented are Le Corbusier's work in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, United States, Argentina, Brazil, Tunisia, Iraq, Japan, USSR, and India. The itinerary includes not only the buildings but also the process of getting from one to the next. On the ""open road"" it is a pleasure to remember Le Corbusier's own joy of self-propulsion in the automobile, efficiency, and speed in the train; and the thrill of flight as he experienced it with the poet of flight, Antoine de Saint Exupery. All these mimetic pleasures are ancillary to the experience of the buildings in situ in their complex relationship to local landscape, national spirit, and international vision.
This is not a book for architects, but for all those that have suffered, consciously and unconsciously, from modern architecture and have wondered how it came about. This was largely due to one man, ...an architect called Le Corbusier. For some he was a genius, but the truth is he was a sham, a fake, a charlatan whose only gift was for self-publicity. He was the most influential architect of the second half of the twentieth century; his influence overwhelmed the architectural profession on a global scale, who swallowed his publicity whole, and still hold him in awe. For the rest of the world, the mere mortals, his influence was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes, imposing a dreariness hitherto unimagined. As usual, it was the poor who suffered most as they were herded into tower-blocks. These were often grouped into estates that ringed many towns and cities, which then degenerated into high-rise slums with all the well-known attendant social problems.This book exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects. These were due to his profound dishonesty, both as a person and as an architect. His legacy was an architectural profession that believed, and still believe, they were designing buildings based on logic, functionality and honesty whereas they were doing the opposite.
the construction of the apartment block at number 24, rue Nungesser et Coli in Paris, between 1931 and 1934, was an important milestone for Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. It was the first ...opportunity offered to them in France to put to the test theories on urbanism and architecture, which they had been working on since the 1920s ("cinq points de l architecture moderne"), and marks an important stage on the path to Brutalism. And it is of all the more interest because of the apartment and art studio Le Corbusier designed for the top two floors of the building and in which he lived from 1934 until his death in 1965. Historical documents and drawings make this handy-sized volume an invaluable guide for visitors and a practical introduction for all architectural enthusiasts.
Aerial photographs are most commonly associated with notions of panoptic vision or the environmental sublime. This paper reviews the dystopian and utopian discourses surrounding aerial photography ...and suggests a third approach to understanding aerial vision as dialectically situated between the poles of science and art, rationality and imagination, abstracted and embodied knowledge, visibility and invisibility, the archive and the museum.
"Poème électronique" was one of the first comprehensive multimedia works, which consistently used the handling of audio material in architectural space. This work was prepared by a trio of artists Le ...Corbusier, Edgard Varèse and Iannis Xenakis for the presentation of the Philips company at the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1958. Poème électronique is used in this book as a comprehensive term for a set of artistic acts associated with the Philips pavilion. A particular emphasis is placed on the personality of the solitaire and pioneer of electroacoustic music, Edgard Varèse. The present publication attempts to trace the lines of the development of the three main protagonists intersecting an interpretive framework designed by the aesthetics of contemporary art groups and movements.
Le Corbusier e Pierre Chareau são notoriamente responsáveis por duas obras consideradas ícones da Arquitetura moderna: as moradias Villa Savoye e Maison de Verre. São obras coetâneas, solicitadas por ...clientes com o mesmo perfil socioeconômico – alta burguesia francesa – e com necessidades similares. Villa Savoye é uma residência unifamiliar, enquanto Maison de Verre compartilha as funções moradia e clínica médica na mesma edificação: diferença, no entanto, que não interfere no foco da análise proposta. O artigo busca, por meio do cotejamento das relações cliente-arquiteto - Le Corbusier-Savoye e Chareau-Dalsace -,levantar questões sobre a conduta profissional que o arquiteto moderno se arrogou: revolucionário de hábitos e de costumes. As obras são respostas modernas e diversas, para solicitações semelhantes. Em ambos os casos, o papel da mulher é um indicativo de sua influência, nesse contexto histórico, como formadora de opinião. A casa, sendo o lócus de domínio feminino, expressa os gostos e hábitos da mulher.
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