Le+Corbusier

=__Le Corbusier__ =

Borned Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, he had an interest in arts since he was young. He started traveling around Europe to escape from his normal life. He then went to the balkans to study the greek buildings. During World War 1 he became teacher in an arts school. He worked with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret until de 50's. In 1918 he worked with Amedee Ozenfant creating a new kind of painting called purism which was derived from cubism. In1920 he adopted the name Le Corbusier in honor of his grandfather. He studied Purist theory from 1918 to 1922 and from that studies he started making designs for houses for single families. Between 1922 and 1927 he started designing private houses with his cousin. He made some other works before his death in 1965, when even his "enemy" Salvador Dali mourned him.

Ideas
One of his ideas was "The 5 points of architecture" in which the buildings are made using supporting pilots so the facade, floor space and walls could be reconfigured. Then he added many windows so people could see the yards around the buildings and at last he included a garden at the roof to compensate the green space used to construct the building. He also used "The modulor" in which he organized many buildings into mathematically measured sections.

Buildings
Centre Le Corbusier, at Zurich, Switzerland, 1963 to 1967. House at Weissenhof, at Stuttgart, Germany, 1927 Notre-Dame-du-Haut, at Ronchamp, France, 1955 United Nations Headquarters, with others, at New York, New York, 1947 to 1953 Villa Savoye, at Poissy, France, 1928 to 1929 Villa Stein, at Garches, France, 1927

Illustrations
Sebastián Molina Sebastián Gereda Luis Gerardo Dubón