1. “Architecture is the learned game,
correct and magnificent, of forms
assembled in the light.”
-Le Corbusier
2.
3. Modern
Movement
• Modernism describes
a collection of cultural
movements of the late
nineteenth and early
twentieth century
• Modernism is reductive,
striving towards
abstraction and purity
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6. Backgroun
d
• Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
• One of the most prominent
architects of the 20th century.
• Self-proclaimed town-planner
• His building designs are certainly
embedded and celebrated in
architectural history
• His critics have been
considerably less flattering in
their comments on his city
planning.
8. • No matter how open and green, cities should be frankly
urban
• Density itself is not a problem
• Slums exist because of the failure to provide the proper
surrounding for high density living
• He protests against strict functionalism
12. • Built on the grounds
where the vernacular
European cities
demolished
• Re arranged key features
of Ville Contemporine
• Contain effective means
of transportation
• Abundance of green
space and sunlight
Theatres
Gardens
Sports Fields
Squares
Restaurants
17. • One of the most significant
urban planning experiments of
the 20th century.
• It is the only one of the
numerous urban planning
schemes of Le Corbusier to
have actually been executed.
• The site has some of his
greatest architectural creations.
• Became a symbol of planned
urbanism.
18. • Famous for its landscaping as for its architectural
ambience.
Most of the buildings are in pure, cubical form,
geometrically subdivided with emphasis on proportion,
scale and detail
• shape of the city plan is a rectangular shape with a grid
iron pattern for the fast traffic roads
• The city plan was conceived as post war ‘Garden City’
wherein vertical and high rise buildings were ruled out,
keeping in view the socio economic-conditions and
living habits of the people.
19. Positives and Negatives
• Le Corbusier’s architectural models are well-defined and
generally accepted, his urban ideas have not been so neatly
packaged and disobey chronological marking out, simply
because there is so much overlap
• frequently blamed for the monotonous, single use zoning and
car-dependent developments immediately after the Second
World War.
• Boring
• Class based conception of life – different classes being
separately housed
• Doubts about the scale and degree of centralization
20. • Robert Hughes speaks of Le Corbusier's city planning
in his series The Shock of the New
"...the car would abolish the human street, and
possibly the human foot. Some people would
have aero planes too. The one thing no one
would have is a place to bump into each other,
walk the dog, strut, one of the hundred
random things that people do ... being
random was loathed by Le Corbusier ... its
inhabitants surrender their freedom of
movement to the omnipresent architect."
Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) is an unrealized urban masterplan by Le Corbusier, first presented in 1924 and published in a book of the same name in 1933. Designed to contain effective means of transportation, as well as an abundance of green space and sunlight, Le Corbusier’s city of the future would not only provide residents with a better lifestyle, but would contribute to creating a better society. Though radical, strict and nearly totalitarian in its order, symmetry and standardization, Le Corbusier’s proposed principles had an extensive influence on modern urban planning and led to the development of new high-density housing typologies.
