TUTORIAL 1st PARCIAL

GUSTAVO SANDOVAL

ENGLISH V

DECEMBER 14TH, 2017

 Le Corbusier

Well, as a first point I chose Le Corbusier because he is considered one of the most important
representatives of architecture which is the career that I currently follow.

As a second point I chose this architect because I like his work and the works he has done
throughout his career since during my studies I was able to analyze several of his works that have
influenced me for later designs that I have done.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known, from the 1920s as Le Corbusier born on October
6, 1887 in Switzerland and died on August 27, 1965 in France, was an architect and architectural
theorist, urban planner, interior decorator, painter, sculptor and Swiss man of letters, nationalized
French in 1930, he is considered one of the clearest exponents of modern architecture along with
Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Niemeyer, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe and Theo van Doesburg, and one of the most influential architects of the twentieth
century for this reason I pick this architect to study his life and the most important facts that
characterized him like relevant facts of his life, his works and his contributions to the worldwide.

In 1900 when Le was 13 years old he began his apprenticeship as engraver and chisel at the School
of Art of La Chaux-de-Fonds. One of his professors, Charles L'Eplattenier, guided him towards
painting and then towards architecture. In 1905 with he 18 years designed his first building, the
Villa Fallet, a house for a member of the School of Art. In the following ten years he made
numerous buildings, which still did not bear his later characteristic stamp, and which he himself
did not include in his Complete Work.

His father used to make watch boxes for the watch industry in his hometown, and his mother was
a pianist and music teacher.

Le Corbusier works in a lot of buildings:

 Villa Fallet, (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) (1905)
 Villa Jeanneret-Perret (Maison blanche), (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) (1912)
 Maison Ozenfant (Paris, France) (1922)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg Barrio Modernes Frugès, Pessac (Bordeaux, France)
 Building of the Salvation Army, (Paris, France)
 Villa Cook (Boulogne, France)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg Villa Savoye (Poissy, France)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg Casa Guiette (Antwerp, Belgium)
 Nestlé Pavilion, Paris Fair (1927)
 Project for the World Museum in Geneva, or «Mundaneum» (1929)
 Building Chemin de Villiers (Poissy, France)
 Barge of the Salvation Army, floating asylum (Paris)
 Terrace of the Carlos de Beístegui and Yturbe department (Paris)
 Villa le Sextant (Maison aux Mathes, Maison L'Océan) 1935
 Swiss Pavilion, University City of Paris (1931)
 Property Porte Molitor (Paris) (1931-1934)
 Clarté Building (Geneva)
 Apartment building on Nungesser et Coli street (Paris)
 Ministry of National Education (Rio de Janeiro) (collaborated by Oscar Niemeyer and
Lúcio Costa).
 Duval factory (Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg Room Unit (Marseille)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg Chapel of Our Lady of the Alto (Ronchamp, France)
 Philips Pavilion, Brussels (1958)
 Building of the Association of Spinners (Ahmedabad, India)
 Villa Sarabhai (Ahmedabad, India)
 Ahmedabad Museum (India)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg High Court Building (Chandigarh, India)
 Museum and Art Gallery (Chandigarh, India)
 Convent of Santa María de La Tourette (Lyon)
 House of Brazil, University City (Paris)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg House of Culture of Firminy-Vert (Firminy, France)
 Room Unit of Firminy-Vert (Firminy, France)
 Stadium of Firminy-Vert (Firminy, France)
 Pool of Firminy-Vert (Firminy, France)
 Church Saint-Pierre Firminy-Vert, (Firminy, France) (1973-2006) (collaborated by José
Oubrerie).
 Homes Heilsbergen Dreieck (Berlin)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo)
 Carpenter Visual Arts Center, Harvard University (Massachusetts)
 Le Corbusier Center (Zurich)
 World Heritage Logo global.svg Curutchet House (La Plata, Argentina)
 Villa Shodan (Ahmedabad, India) (1951-1956)
On March 15, 2016, the ensemble of the "Architectural Work of Le Corbusier - Exceptional
Contribution to the Modern Movement" was inscribed as a World Heritage Site, in the
category of cultural property (nº 1321rev) . Unesco describes like this:
Spread across seven countries, the 17 sites that make up this heritage site are a testament
to the invention of a new way of expressing architecture, in clear break with its previous
forms. The architectural works of those sites were made by Le Corbusier over fifty years
of "patient search", according to his own words. The Capitol Complex of Chandigarh
(India), the National Museum of Fine Arts of the West of Tokyo (Japan), the house of Dr.
Curutchet in La Plata (Argentina) and the Housing Unit of Marseille (France), among other
constructions, highlight the solutions provided in the twentieth century by the Modern
Movement to the challenge of renewing architectural techniques to meet the needs of
society. These masterpieces of human genius are also a testimony to the
internationalization of architecture on a planetary scale
Description on the Unesco site:
It is a broad transnational group - in seven countries: Germany, Argentina, Belgium,
France, India, Japan and Switzerland - which involves the protection of the following 17
individual sites (some with several buildings) .