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The Issue of Theology in The Formative Years of Le Corbusier
The Issue of Theology in The Formative Years of Le Corbusier
The Issue of Theology in The Formative Years of Le Corbusier
charles-edouard jeanneret
Dallo teologico negli anni formativi di Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
Le Corbusier e il suo rapporto con la religione
Le Corbusier, Two carachteristic house types in the Jura region (1960)
Max Weber, The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Pg. 71
... and what are poets for in a destitute time?" The word
"time" here means the era to which we ourselves still belong.
I attempted to create a place for meditation, of search and prayer for the
monks. The human resonances of that matter have guided our work ()
I imagined the forms, the contacts, the circuits necessary with which
prayer, liturgy, meditation can develop at ease in this home.
Le Corbusier, speech at the inauguration of La Tourette monastery . 1960
I made rules for the form and movement of every consonant, and I
boasted of inventing, with rhythms from within me, a kind of poetry
that all the senses, sooner or later, would recognize. And I alone would
be its translator.
J-Arthur Rimbaud, The alchemy of the word.
Charles-edouard Jeanneret , sketches of La chartreuse dema / Certosa del Galluzzo (1907?)
Carthusian monasteries are unlike all others since each monk lives not in a
narrow, ill-lit, one room cell but in a modest house of several rooms with
fireplace, cellar, attic, terrace, and a small private garden with flowers () a
bridge-like walkway (is) the origin of Corbusiers architectural promenade.
H. Allen Brooks, Le Corbusiers formative years. Pg. 20
Charles-edouard Jeanneret, sketches of La chartreuse dema / Certosa del Galluzzo (1910)
This existence, in such a setting, became Jeannerets dream of the ideal life:
much that he designed and built in future years would reflect his love affair with
the Chartreuse dEma.
H. Allen Brooks, Le Corbusiers formative years. Pg. 20
Photograph of La chartreuse dema / Certosa del Galluzzo (2015)
Max Weber, The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Pg. 72