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Introduction
• The movement known as Rationalism
gathered the most important personalities
Rationalism of 20th century’s architecture.
• Their work and their theory are individual
Revision but they have in common the simplicity of
the forms because each form belongs to a
Compiled by: Addisyihun A. function.
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Materials
• They use highly industrialised materials,
especially concrete.
• Concrete advantages are:
– It is a cheap material, easy to adapt, incombustible,
non-corrosive and that offers the possibility of
building the skeleton, leaving the plan free.
– In addition to this, it permits the pre-manufacture in
series.
– It can be combined with other materials such as still,
glass or brick.
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Le Corbusier
• Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland even if a
majority of his work was developed in France.
• He learnt the use of concrete and soon he
began with the series production.
• He also designed cities for a concrete number of
inhabitants (about three million).
• In 1926 he made one of his most representative
works Ville Savoye, that consists of a concrete
structure of Mediterranean inspiration.
Le Corbusier
• In Ville Savoye he put into practice his five
points of architecture:
– use of “pilotis”, a kind of pillar to sustain the structure
and separate it from the floor, not cutting the space;
– free façade;
– garden-terrace, thanks to the flat roofs;
– multiplication of windows: continuous windows with
metallic sticks;
– free plan because now it is not the support of the
wall.
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Le Corbusier
• He theorised but it was not an utopian
because his projects were realised
• One of his popular works was the Unité
d´Habitation at Marseille, where he built
houses for working class families.
• In these buildings he applied some of his
architectonical points too.
Le Corbusier
• At the end of his career he modified his
Rationalism and was closer to the
Organicism as in the case of one of his
master works: Notre Dame du Haut at
Ronchamp.
• Other works are:
– UN Headquarters in New York
– Chandigarh in India
– Bagdad Stadium
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