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    Charles-Edouard Jeannert-Griss, better known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer considered the father of modern architecture. He studied architecture in Switzerland and began his practice with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in the early 20th century. Le Corbusier developed five key design principles including pilotis, open floor plans, ribbon windows, and roof gardens. Some of his most famous projects include the Villa Savoye, which exemplified his "machine for living" concept, the Unite d'Habitation in Berlin which implemented his modular housing theories, and the Ronchamp Chapel with its asymmetric concrete design and emphasis on

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    Charles-Edouard Jeannert-Griss, better known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer considered the father of modern architecture. He studied architecture in Switzerland and began his practice with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in the early 20th century. Le Corbusier developed five key design principles including pilotis, open floor plans, ribbon windows, and roof gardens. Some of his most famous projects include the Villa Savoye, which exemplified his "machine for living" concept, the Unite d'Habitation in Berlin which implemented his modular housing theories, and the Ronchamp Chapel with its asymmetric concrete design and emphasis on

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    Charles-Edouard Jeannert-Griss, better known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer considered the father of modern architecture. He studied architecture in Switzerland and began his practice with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in the early 20th century. Le Corbusier developed five key design principles including pilotis, open floor plans, ribbon windows, and roof gardens. Some of his most famous projects include the Villa Savoye, which exemplified his "machine for living" concept, the Unite d'Habitation in Berlin which implemented his modular housing theories, and the Ronchamp Chapel with its asymmetric concrete design and emphasis on

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    ARCHITECT LE CORBUSIER (father of modernism)

    INTRODUCTION
    Father of modernism in architecture name Charles-Edouard Jeannert-Griss better Known as Le
    corbusier’s was born in 1887 in Switzerland. He was a swiss- French Architect, Designer,
    Painter, Urban planner, Writer.
    EDUCATION
    Le Corbusier was attracted to the visual arts and studied at the La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School
    under CharlesL'Eplattenier, who had studied in Budapest and Paris. His architecture teacher in
    the Art School was the Architect René Chapallaz, who had a large influence on Le Corbusier's
    earliest houses.
    PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
    He would begin his own architectural practice with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret (1896–1967), a
    partnership that would last until 1940.
    DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
    Le Corbusier explicitly used the golden ratio in his Modular system for the scale of architectural
    proportion. It was based on the height of a man with his arm upraised, and according to Le
    Corbusier, any structure based on multiples of this unit of measure would be beautiful and have
    a human scale.
    DESIGN ELEMENTS
    Five Points
    1. PILOTIS, 2. AN OPEN PLAN, 3.FREE FAÇADE, 4.RIBBON WINDOW, 5.ROOF GARDEN
    FURNITURE
    Le Corbusier said:
    "Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois."

    Le Corbusier began experimenting with furniture design in 1928.

    THREE FAMOUS PROJECTS BY LE CORBUSIER


    1. VILLA S0VAYE 2. UNITE D’ HABITATTION 3. RONCHAMP CATHEDRAL.
    1. VILLA S0VAYE: The Villa Sovaye was designed by Le Corbusier as a paradigm of
    the "MACHINE AS HOME” so that the functions of everyday life inside.
    CONCEPT: This concept also includes the fact that housing is designed as an
    object that allegedly landed on the landscape, is totally autonomous and it can be
    placed anywhere in the world.
    MATERIAL: The materials used in the Villa Sovaye is such materials were used
    during this time in building houses for lower-class Parisians.

    2. MODERN MOVEMENT II- UNITE D’ HABITATION BERLIN


    The Unit é d' Habitation is the name of a MODERNIST RESIDENTIAL HOUSING
    design principle developed by Le’ Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-
    architect Nadir Afonso.
    It was the first opportunity to implement Corbusier's theories, to a scale that
    would lead to Modular.
    MATERIAL: The materials used are apparently finished with reinforced concrete
    and glass, no decorations, no elegance, both indoors and outdoors.
    The facade is protected by canopies are prefabricated elements of this material.

    3. RONCHAMP CATHEDRAL FRANCE


    The chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in RONCHAMP, completed in 1954, is one
    of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le
    Corbusier and one of the most important examples of twentieth-century
    religious architecture.
    The structure is built mostly of concrete and stone.
    Architecture:
    In the interior, the spaces left between the walls and roof and filled with
    clerestory
    windows, as well as the asymmetric light from the wall openings, serve to
    further reinforce the sacred nature of the space and reinforce the relationship
    of the building with its surroundings.

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