Monday 1 February 2010

Lecture 6 - Modernist Theories and Dogma - The rise of Le Corbusier


Le Corbusier born in 1887 was a Swiss-French architect, designe domino systemr, urbanist, writer and also a painter. He studies the modern high design and was specific in designing better living for residents of crowed cities. He was interested in new technical inventions and construction material. He invented the domino system, where stand for ‘domestic’ ‘innovation’, the principle combined the meaning of the two words and together with the domino game. He created the ‘Dom-ino’ House in 1914-1915 where he examined the new structural and material possibilities in architecture The house proposed with an open floor plan consisting of concrete slabs and supported by a minimal number of thin, reinforced concrete columns around the edges, with a stairway providing access to each level on one side of the floor plan. This design became the foundation for most of his architecture for the next ten-year.

Le Corbusier suggested the basis modern living in his Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau, it was described as a ‘machine for living in’ and compared to a similar description of automobiles as ‘machines for transportation’. He suggested the basis for a design for modern living as to be found in the efficiency and economy of the office rather than in the luxury and individuality of the traditional home or apartment, and relied more upon the skills of the engineer than those of the artist.