The Le Corbusier Guide

The Le Corbusier Guide presents the architecture of Le Corbusier. The focus is on Paris given that it is his adopted city and the place where he came of age. Within its environs is a representative sample of his built work. It contains most of his purist houses, and an early foray away from the crisp surfaces of Purism. This itinerary follows the outlines of Le Corbusier's life's work. Beginning at his birthplace in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the route continues to Paris, to the perimeter of France, and finally to the international scene architects, architecture, Paris. Also presented are Le Corbusier's work in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, United States, Argentina, Brazil, Tunisia, Iraq, Japan, USSR, and India. The itinerary includes not only the buildings but also the process of getting from one to the next. On the ""open road"" it is a pleasure to remember Le Corbusier's own joy of self-propulsion in the automobile, efficiency, and speed in the train; and the thrill of flight as he experienced it with the poet of flight, Antoine de Saint Exupery. All these mimetic pleasures are ancillary to the experience of the buildings in situ in their complex relationship to local landscape, national spirit, and international vision.

Acknowledgments

Using the Le Corbusier Guide

Le Corbusier: A Dialectical Itinerary

Le Corbusier: A Biographical Note

Paris and environs

Maison Planex (Planeix)

Asile Flottant

Cite de Refuge (l’Armée du Salut)

Atelier Ozenfant

Pavillon Suisse

Pavillon du Brésil

Maisons la Roche-Jeanneret

Apartment House at Porte Molitor

Maisons Lipchitz-Miestchaninoff

Maison Ternisien

Maison Cook

Maisons Jaoul

Villa Besnus (Ker-ka-ré)

Villa Stein/de Monzie

Maison de Weekend

Villa Savoye

France

Unité d'habitation, Briey-en-Forêt

Manufacture Duval

Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut

Écluse de Kembs-Niffer

Couvent de La Tourette

Firminy-Vert

Unité d'habitation, Marseille

Villa de Mandrot

Le Petit Cabanon (Etoile de Mer)

Grave of Le Corbusier

Quartier Moderne Frugès

Villa le Sextant

Unité d'habitation Nantes-Rezé

La Chaux-de-Fonds & Switzerland

Villa Fallet

Villa Stotzer

Villa Jacquemet

Villa Jeanneret

Villa Favre-Jacot

Cinéma Scala

Villa Schwob (Villa Turque)

La Petite Maison

Immeuble Clarté

Centre Le Corbusier

Belgium

Maison Guiette

Germany

Houses of the Weissenhof

Uniteé d'habitation, Berlin

Italy

Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau

USA

United Nations Headquarters

Carpenter Center

Argentina

Maison Currutchet

Brazil

Ministry of Education

Tunisia

Villa Baizeau (Bézeult)

Iraq

Saddam Hussein Gymnasium

Japan

National Museum of Western Art

USSR

Centrosoyus Building

Ahmedabad, India

Millowners' Association Building

Maison de Mme Sarabhai

Villa Shodhan

N. C. Mehta Museum

Chandigarh, India

Palace of Justice (High Court)

Secretariat

Assembly Building (Parliament)

The Yacht Club (Lake Club)

Museum and Art Gallery

College of Art

College of Architecture

Monument of the Open Hand

Glossary

Notes

Maps

Index