L'ESPRIT NOUVEAU

Le-Corbusier’s Quest For Ideal Form

Le-Corbusier:
Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le-
Corbusier) was born in 1887. Le-
Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect,
designer, painter, urban planner, writer,
and one of the pioneers of what is now
called modern architecture. He was born
in Switzerland and became a French
citizen in 1930.He trained as an engraver.
A watch-case he made at the age of 15
won a prize at the Turin exhibition of
1902. A major early influence on his
formation was L' Eplattenier. The young
jeannert was deeply introspective.
Cubism:
Cubism is an early-20th-
century avant-garde art
movement that revolutionized
European painting and
sculpture, and inspired related
movements. The movement
was pioneered by Pablo Picasso
and Georges Braque. The artists
abandoned perspective, which
had been used to depict space
since the Renaissance, and they Woman With Geese By Diego Rivera
also turned away from the
realistic modeling of figures.
AFTER WHICH
Purism:
Le Corbusier, 1921, Nature morte (Still Life)
Purism, referring to the arts,
was a movement that took place
between 1918 and 1925 that
influenced French painting and
architecture. Purism was led by
Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le
Corbusier) and Amédée Ozenfant . It
was basically a variation of cubist
movement.
Jeanneret's activity as a painter was
to be most important to him when he
became Le Corbusier the architect,
because it provided him with a
laboratory of forms.
 L'esprit Nouveau Magazine:
In 1920, Jeanneret took the name Le-
Corbusier and founded the magazine L'esprit
Nouveau with Ozenfant. This opened on a
positive note which, again, suggested a
consolidation after the upheaval of the war
years.
Le Corbusier also stressed the role of
tradition in providing great examples whose
lessons might be transformed to contemporary
purposes. Magazine was far from being a
defense of 'functionalism’ indeed, it was
permeated with a lofty view of the role of art
and emphasized the poetic value of sculptural
form.
Villa Fallet:

Built 1906-1907
Architects:
René Chapallaz
Charles L’Eplattenier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
Domino House:

Built 1914-1915
Architects:
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
Max dubois
Five points of new Architecture:
They were an extension of the Dom-ino principles and were to remain one of
Le Corbusier's major devices for the rest of his life. It was typical of him that
he should have end eavoured to create a generic solution, one which
transcended particular cases. Perhaps the choice of five points is significant
as if he were trying to canonize a modern equivalent to the Five Classical
orders.
• The pioloti
• The roof terrace
• The free façade
• Flat roof
• Free plan
L'esprit Nouveau:

Built 1924
Architect:
Le-Corbusier
Villa Cook:

Built 1926
Architects:
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
Max dubois
Pessac Housing Project:

Built: 1927
Architects: Le-Corbusier
 Founding of CIAM & Athens charter

In 1928, Le Corbusier took a major

step toward establishing modernist
architecture as the dominant European style.
Le Corbusier had met with many of the
leading German and Austrian modernists
during the competition for the League of
Nations in 1927.
• 3 Meetings
Villa Savoye:

Built: 1929
Architects: Le-Corbusier
 • A promising laboratory for
Moscow Projects: his architectural ideas.
• He met the Russian
architect Melnikov during
the 1925
• admired the construction
of Melnikov's constructvist
USSR pavilion, the only
other truly modernist
building in the Exposition.
• Traveled to Moscow.
• Found that his writings had
been published in Russian.
• Between 1928 and 1932 he
constructed an office
building.
Moscow Projects: • In 1932, he was invited to
take part in an international
competition for the
new Place of soviets in
Moscow.
• Site : Russian orthodox
cathedral of Moscow.
• Plan was rejected in favor
for a massive neoclassic
tower.
• Construction stops due to
world war-II.
• Swimming pool
construction.
 MACHINE FOR LIVING
Le-Corbusier

“Le Corbusier is famous for stating, “The house is a machine for living.” This statement is not simply
translated into the design of a human scaled assembly line; rather the design begins to take on
innovative qualities and advances found in other fields of industry, in the name of efficiency.”
Weissenhof-Siedlung Houses

Built: 1931
Architects: Le-Corbusier
“Conclusion”
Thankyou ☺

Presented by:
Usama Siddique
Owais Akhtar
Muhammad Khalid
Muhammad Asadullah
M.Talha Tahir
Faizan
M.Ali