 Le
Corbusier, whose real name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, was one of the
greatest architects in the early 1900's. Le Corbusier was born in Chaux-de-Fonds,
Switzerland, on October 6th, 1887, and spent most of his life in France.
He died in the Mediterranean in August 1965. He found his own proportion
system of architecture - Modulor, which considered the standard human
height as 1829 mm, happenly to be the same as mine.
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- His most famous
publishers include
- Vers
une Architecture (Towards a New Architecture),
- Urbanisme (The City of Tomorrow),
- L'Art
decoratif daujourd'hui, and
- La
Peinture Moderne.
- In his publications,
he attributed the ideas of modern architecture which was still in
its childhood by the famous "five points of modern architecture"--
- the replacement
of cellars and foundations by piles and pilotis;
- the use of roof
gardens;
- the point loading
of floor supports to free internal planning;
- the change from
windows to strips of glass running from wall to wall;
- the creation
of a curtain-wall facade which would no longer carry load.
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- Here are some
of his masterpieces:
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Notre
Dame du Haut
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Carpenter
Center
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