2. “Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of
masses brought together in light.”
Le Corbusier - Vers une architecture
3. • LE Corbusier is one of the pioneers of the post war architectural
style “Modernism”
• Founder member of the international school of architecture which
taught international style .
• He introduced many new features through this style. It was
conventional for the time
Modernism - A new style
4. • Poverty
• Lack of material
• Destroyed cities
• The slums
• Relocating
all the problems were solved by modernist style as people thought
at that time
Post war era
5. • Less or no decoration on façades
• Introduction of the high-rise buildings
• Usage of mass produced materials
Ex; Concrete
Steel
• Pure Geometric shapes
• Usage of the “five points of Architecture “ introduced by himself
Special features of the modernism
6. • The following points in no way relate to aesthetic fantasies or a
striving for fashionable effects, but concern architectural facts
that imply an entirely new kind of building, from the dwelling
house to palatial edifices.
• THE SUPPORTS (Pilotis)
• THE ROOF GARDENS
• THE FREE DESIGNING OF THE GROUND PLAN
• THE HORIZONTAL WINDOW
• FREE DESIGN OF THE FAÇADE
• The five essential points set out above represent a fundamentally
new aesthetic. Nothing is left to us of the architecture of past
epochs, just as we can no longer derive any benefit from the
literary and historical teaching given in schools.
Five points of architecture
7. • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE - Modernist, International
• ADDRESS - 82, Rue de Villiers 78300 Poissy
• TOWN/CITY- Poissy, Yvelines
• COUNTRY- France
• CONSTRUCTION STARTED - 1928
• OWNER - French government
Villa Savoye (1928-1931)
8. • It was designed by Le Corbusier as a paradigm of the "machine as
a home", so that the functions of everyday life inside become
critical to its design. The movement of cars to enter the interior of
the house is the trigger for the design of the building.
• It 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. Architecture followed the
style of airplanes, cars and ships, with the declared aim of
achieving mass production of housing.
• Pillars supporting the ground floor also advanced this idea, and
the independence of the Villa from its garden, and was
recognized as one of the key points of the first generation of
International Architecture
Concept
9. • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE - Modernist, International
• TOWN/CITY- Cambridge, Massachusetts
• COUNTRY- UNITED STATES
• COMPLETED - 1963
Carpenters center for the visual
10. • Pilotis – The replacement of supporting walls by a grid
of reinforced concrete columns that bears the load of the
structure is the basis of the new aesthetic.
• Roof gardens – The flat roof can be utilized for any purpose while
also providing essential protection to the concrete roof.
• The free designing of the ground plan – The absence of
supporting walls means that the house is unrestrained in its internal
usage.
• The free design of façade – By separating the exterior of the
building from its structural function the façade becomes free.
• The horizontal window – The façade can be cut along its entire
length to allow rooms to be lit equally.
Carpenters center for the visual
11. • His interest over urban architecture grew with the housing crisis of
1920s in Paris .
• His intention was to create affordable efficient housing system to
solve the problems of the low income people using a modern
approach
• High-rise buildings came in to become the perfect .resolution
• Modern , contemporary shapes , economical housing for the low
and lower middle class .
Urban architecture and LE Corbusier
12. • Done in 1922
• Similar cell like apartments stacked on each other .
• Enough living spaces including a roof garden
"Immeubles Villas"
13. • This was planned by le Corbusier for 3 million occupants
• 60 story skyscrapers
• It’s own transportation system including a train station , highway
intersections and airport
• Wasn’t built
Contemporary City
14. • His planning was a concept called the radiant city planning.
• The current plot for the city was suggested after considering the
water supply , gradient of the landscape , the centralized
positioning and more
• This city is situated in India and it is named “Chandigarh“
City Planning by Le Corbusier
16. • Superblock principle
• City square like in spain
• Quartered city grid lines
• 500,000 inhabitants
City Planning by Le Corbusier
17. • Planned as a Green City with abundance of open spaces,
Chandigarh
• ensures that every dwelling has its adequate share of three
elements of
• Sun, Space and Verdure. Location of green belt was in north south
Green city concept
18. • V1- Fast roads connecting Chandigarh to other towns
• V2- Arterial roads
• V3- Fast vehicular roads around the sectors
• V4- Meandering shopping streets
• V5- Sector circulation roads
• V6- Access roads to houses
• V7- Footpaths, cycle tracks Buses will ply only on V1,
• V2, V3 and V4 roads. A wall
• shall seal the V3 roads
• from the sectors.
Cocept of 7VS
Support of ground-level pilotis, elevating the building from the earth and allowed an extended continuity of the garden beneath.
Functional roof, serving as a garden and terrace, reclaiming for nature the land occupied by the building.
Free floor plan, relieved of load-bearing walls, allowing walls to be placed freely and only where aesthetically needed.
Long horizontal windows, providing illumination and ventilation.
Freely-designed facades, serving only as a skin of the wall and windows and unconstrained by load-bearing considerations.
Support of ground-level pilotis, elevating the building from the earth and allowed an extended continuity of the garden beneath.
Functional roof, serving as a garden and terrace, reclaiming for nature the land occupied by the building.
Free floor plan, relieved of load-bearing walls, allowing walls to be placed freely and only where aesthetically needed.
Long horizontal windows, providing illumination and ventilation.
Freely-designed facades, serving only as a skin of the wall and windows and unconstrained by load-bearing considerations.
