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Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
• Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect,
designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and
one of the pioneers of what is now regarded
as modern architecture.
• He was born in Switzerland and became a
French citizen in 1930. (October 6, 1887 –
August 27, 1965)
• His career spanned five decades, and he
designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India,
and North and South America.
Early life and career(1914-1930)
• Le Corbusier taught at his old school in La- chaux-de-Fond
during World War I.
• Until the end of the first world war he worked in Switzerland.
• Were he worked on theoretical architectural studies using
modern techniques.
• Among these was his project for the Domino House (1914–1915).
• In 1908, He studied architecture in Vienna with Josef Hoffmann.
• Between October 1910 and March 1911, he worked near Berlin for
the renowned architect Peter Behrens
• Soon he would begin his own architectural practice with his cousin,
Pierre Jeanneret (1896– 1967), a partnership that would last until the
1950s.
• In 1918, Le Corbusier met the Cubist painter Amédée Ozenfant.
• After World War II, Le Corbusier attempted to realize his urban
planning schemes on a small scale by constructing a series of "unités"
(the housing block unit of the Radiant City) around France.
• Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of
crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was
a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture
Moderne (CIAM). Le Corbusier prepared the master plan for the city
of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several
buildings there, especially the government buildings.
• The most famous of these was the Unité
dHabitation of Marseilles (1946–1952).
• In the 1950s, a unique opportunity to
translate the Radiant City on a grand
scale presented itself in the construction
of the Union Territory Chandigarh.
• The new capital of Indian states of
Punjab and Haryana and the first
planned city in India. Unité dHabitation
France Le Corbusier Marseille or Cité
Radieuse .
Le Corbusier – the modular
• Le Corbusier explicitly used the
golden ratio in his Modular
system for the scale of
architectural proportion.
• The Modular is an
anthropometric scale of
proportions devised by him.
• It is based on the height of an
English man with his arm raised.
Influences
• He saw this system as a continuation of the
long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da
Vincis and , the work of Leon Battista
Alberti.
• They used the proportions of the human
body to improve the appearance and
function of architecture.
• Le Corbusier described it as a "range of
harmonious measurements to suit the
human scale, universally applicable to all.
 Villa Savoye
• , Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.
Completed in 1929, Villa Savoye is a
modern take on a French country
house that celebrates and reacts to the
new machine age.
• The house single handedly
transformed Le Corbusier’s career as
well as the principles of the
International Style; becoming one of
the most important architectural
precedents in the history. 
• Villa Savoye’s detachment from its physical context lends its design to
be contextually integrated into the mechanistic/industrial context of
the early 20th century, conceptually defining the house as a
mechanized entity.
• Villa Savoye is thoroughly tailored to Corbusier’s
Five Points.
Pilotis  
Flat Roof Terrace
Open Plan
Ribbon Windows
Free Façade  
Ronchamp chapel
• LOCATION -  Ronchamp, France​
• MATERIAL : Reinforced Concrete, Stone​
• Singular in Corbusier's work, in that it departs from his principles of
standardization and the machine aesthetic. Giving a site-
specific response Cara​
• Upturned roof​
• Appears to float above the walls. The different-sized windows are
scattered in an irregular pattern​.
• Derived from a proportional system
• A wall starts out  point on the eastend, and expands toup to 10 feet
thick​
• The openings slant towards their centers at varying degrees, thus
letting in light at different angles​
Unité d'habitation
• Unité d'habitation  is a modernist residential housing design principle
developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-
architect Nadir Afonso.
• The concept formed the basis of several housing developments
designed by him throughout Europe with this name. The most famous
of these developments is located in the southern part of Marseille.
• Unité d'Habitation buildings were designed by Swiss-French
architect Le Corbusier. In 1920, Le Corbusier started to develop the
type apartment which became very influential in 20th century
modernism and contemporary residential design in Europe.
• The apartments were equipped with built-in furniture, and specially
designed storage walls with various cupboards with sliding doors,
which were designed by Charlotte Perriand in collaboration with
Atelier Le Corbusier.
Chandigarh planning
•  The Master plan prepared by Le Corbusier was broadly similar to the
one prepared by the team of planners led by Albert Mayer and Mathew
Novicki.
• Except that the shape of the city plan was modified from one with a
curving road network to rectangular shape with a grid iron pattern for
the fast traffic roads, besides reducing its area for reason of economy.
• Due to economic constraints, the master plan was to be realized in two
phases, catering to a total population of half a million.
• Phase-I consisting of 30 low density sector spread over an area of 9000
acres (Sector 1 to 30) for 1,50,000 people .
• Phase-II consisting of 17 considerably high density Sectors ( Sectors 31
to 47) spread over an area of 6000 acres for a population of 3,50,000.
The open hand
• The Open Hand (La Main Ouverte) is a recurring
motif in Le Corbusier's architecture.
• This is a sign of relief and reconciliation.
• It is open to give and open to receive.
• The largest of the many Open Hand sculptures
that Le Corbusier created is a The Open Hand
Monument in 28 meter high version in
Chandigarh, Chandigarh India. , India
High Court , Capitol complex, Chandigarh
• The High Court is a linear block with the main facade towards the
piazza. It has a rhythmic arcade created by a parasol-like roof, which
shades the entire building.
• Keeping in view the special dignity of the entrance for them through a
high portico resting on three giant pylons painted in bright colors.
• Very much in the tradition of the Buland Darwaza of Fatehpur-Sikri,
this grand entrance with its awesome scale is intended to manifest the
Majesty of the Law to all who
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY BUILDING , capitol
complex, chandigarh 
• The building has two entrances:
one at the basement level for
everyday use an the other from the
piazza level for ceremonial
occasions through a massive
entrance, 7.60 meters high and
7.60 meters broad, whose
enameled door translates a cubist
mural painted by Le Corbusier
himself.
Le Corbusier works

Pavillon Suisse, Paris Heidi Weber Museum,

Switzerland
Mill Owners’ Association Sainte Marie de la Tourette,
Building, Ahmedabad Lyon