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The Architecture of Le Corbusier
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The Architecture of Le Corbusier

The Advent of Modernism for lovers of art, design and architecture
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 8/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • A the end of this course students will be able to recognize and use the principle of modernism in design.
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 2h 24m total length

  • Introduction5:08

    Explore the advent of modernism in architecture through Le Corbusier, tracing a journey from ancient to modern design and surveying mentors, projects, and the contemporary city of three million.

  • The Advent of Modernism6:11

    Discover the advent of modernism, where form follows function, simplicity and clarity guide design, and ornament is eliminated in favor of visible structure and industrial materials.

  • Methods and materials14:01

    Explore how cement, Portland cement, and reinforced concrete with steel rebar transform construction by uniting compression and tension in slabs, beams, and columns.

  • The Teachers and mentors of Le Corbusier. Perret, Hoffman and Behrens11:58

    Trace the mentors behind Le Corbusier—Auguste Perret, Joseph Hoffman, and Peter Behrens—into reinforced concrete, unit-based design, and glass curtain walls that defined modern architecture.

  • Dom-ino House 1914-191510:46

    Study Le Corbusier's Dom-ino house as a modular prototype using columns, slabs, and foundations to create elevated platforms, a free façade, and a reinforced concrete frame via assembly-line construction.

  • La Cité Frugès de Pessac14:00

    Explore Le Corbusier's La Cité Frugès de Pessac in Bordeaux, a four-type workers' housing prototype with terraces, bays, domino houses, and adaptive design on sloped terrain, preserving historical value.

  • The Furniture of Le Corbusier, Ratios and Proportions15:08

    Explore how Le Corbusier translates human proportions into furniture design using the golden ratio, the modular man, and exoskeleton-inspired steel frames in the Elsy series.

  • Villa Savoye, Poissy, France 1921-193120:48

    Explore Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye as a paradigm of modern architecture, elevating the building on columns, a free façade, ribbon windows, flexible interior walls, and a roof garden.

  • Unité d'Habitation11:59

    Explore Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation as a modular, concrete grid of 337 two-story apartments arranged around a central corridor, with Mondrian-inspired color schemes, roof terraces, and standardized living units.

  • A Contemporary City for 3 Million People 19229:52

    Explore how Le Corbusier expands the cubic unit from single-family homes to a three-million-people city, featuring cross-shaped 60-story towers, strict zoning, and integrated transportation hubs.

  • Chandigarh, India, 1951-5813:16

    Explore how Chandigarh embodies Le Corbusier's urban planning, with sector-based design, a head-like city center, green corridors, water features, and monumental buildings, while adapting to local context.

  • Notre Dame du Haut5:22

    Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut in eastern France presents a rectangular plan with a parabolic roof, white textured finish, and interior light shaped by deep ravels in the glass.

  • Course Catalog5:32

    Navigate the course catalog for the architecture of Le Corbusier, aligning with the lecture title and the course focus.

Requirements

  • A desire to learn more about modern art, design and architecture.

Description

The Architecture of Le Corbusier is an essential topic in understanding modern design and architecture. We examine the sources of his design and architecture both from the technical side and the design side. We look in detail at the evolution of his most important works of architecture and design. The course analyzes the impact that Le Corbusier had on the early and fundamental developments of modernism in architecture and design. He is one of the most influential designers of our modern world. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in art, design and architecture

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