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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

ARCHITECT: LE CORBUSIER
YEAR: 1959-1963
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LOCATION: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES

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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
 Architect
Le Corbusier +
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Unite

Built in
 1959-1963

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Introduction
Le Corbusier’s ideas crystallize in grand form on the UN headquarters in New York, developed by W
Corbusier will always claim paternity. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts can be regarded as the
American soil, a very unfair compensation for an architect repeatedly propositioned by the United

In 1913 and fascinated by the images of U.S. industry, Le Corbusier did not succeed in his rst trip
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return after his vain attempt to impose a “reconstruction cell” in New York.
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A determined Le Corbusier takes the opportunity o ered in 1959, thanks to the mediation of Josep
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work to construct a building for the Faculty of Arts at Harvard University. He is aware that it
more.
to present his experience in a nal architectural and plastic synthesis in the U.S.
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Situation
The Carpenter Center was built in the city of Cambridge, a few meters from the brick buildings of H
neoclassical Fogg Museum and the Faculty Club, on land located between Prescott and 15th street
monument that Le Corbusier thought seemed inappropriate at rst sight.

Concept
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Le Corbusier was inspired by all the architectural and plastic themes from 1945 and began some i
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Project
From the outset, Le Corbusier designed Carpenter Center as an architectural
 promenade that connects the two streets through a volume and uses exible forms
encountered in the study of the painter. In a rst outline, designed with the young
Chilean architect Guillen Jullian de la Fuente, the model of the ramp of the walk was a
 spiral. The nal version consists of a thin concrete surface in the form of an “S” joining
the streets and running through the center of a large site, where passersby can see the
studies.
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The building can be compared with the Millowners Association Building in Ahmedabad,

 formed of blocks of various heights in an open plan, wrapped in a marquee and accessible by a ra

Carpenter Center explores several solutions designed from the marquee skyscraper in Algiers and
of a “lung” that recalls a gure presented in 1925 in “Urbanisme”.

Spaces
The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (CCVA) houses the Department of Visual and Environmental S
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Main Gallery at the ground level, and the Harvard Film Archive.
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The main gallery on the street is home to a variety of exhibits to support the curriculum of th
The Carpenter Center is also home to the Harvard Film Archive, which leads the public throu
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experimental lms and rare classics.

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According to its role as a center for visual arts, the building embodies a “synthèse des arts majeurs
architecture.

The ve levels of the building and the role of exible work spaces for painting, drawing and sculpt
heart of the public construction encourages movement and provides views of the works, making v
the design of buildings.

The functional similarities of the oors, the free movement of sculptural expression, ambiguities b
and between mass and space are associated with the Carpenter Center later works: the brise-sole
Chandigarh and the ramp into the building recalls the Millworkers’ Association.
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The ramp allows the inspection of architectural elements of Le Corbusier and the activities of the w

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Structure
 The central nucleus is a cubical volume that ends in curved workshoops at each end of the diagon

The set is crossed by an S-shaped ramp that rises from one of the streets and descends toward th

 boldly breaks with orthogonal geometry of its neo-Georgian environment.

The layers and levels enter and exit the inner cluster concrete pillars. The pillars support
the maximum projections and create interpenetrations fo the exterior and interior, as
 well as sequences of spaces bound by the incline of the promenade.

Le Corbusier used each step of the design process to test new ideas and to purify the
 old. He used the Carpenter Center to investigate the pillars and beams before
establishing a smooth solution of forged and cylindrical pilllars of di erent sizes in the
skeleton structure.
SYST

The ondulatoires and brise-soleil did not mixed well in the windows, so he decided to separate the
like airplane wings – on balconies, the architect returned to the solution found in [[Chandigarh]] an
where concrete panels were placed diagonally or perpendicular to the edge of the building, but th
and ventilation were embedded in the oor, which was combined with pivoting vents to allow the

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Materials
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Sert, who worked with Le Corbusier 1928 to 1930, helps to answer critics who accuse him of using
“brutal.” By using a rendering smooth surfaces
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! many parts of the building, claims to have found
reinforced concrete”

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In Cambridge, the crystals appear in the third and fth oors while the brise-soleil did in the fourth

Elements
Carpenter Center of the holes were mainly four types:

Full glass oor to ceiling (pans de verre)

brise-soleil (which were also conceptual relatives of the walls)
ondulatoires (which gave the best de nition of a hole, just like a wall in some places disconti
aérateurs courses (the nal version leaves pivoting vertical racks including insects).
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Overall this was a grammar of the facade that was the updated version of Le Corbusier by its princ
The idea was that each of the elements to serve a speci c function, and that each embody and sym
 function.

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