LE CORBUSIER Modern ArchitectA Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner,

writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

Biography

Invention

Famous Building 1:

Villa Savoye

Famous Building 2:

Maisons Jaoul

Nationality : French Born on : 06 October 1887 AD       Born in : La Chaux-de-FondsDied on : 27 August 1965 ADPlace of death:  Roquebrune-Cap-MartinAwards : 1961 - Frank P. Brown Medal 1961 - AIA Gold Medal

Modulor system which is based on human proportion and “five points of architecture” was created to make an improvement in

architecture.

A modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.

Maisons Jaoul are a celebrated pair of houses in the upmarket Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier and built in 1954-56. They are among his most important post-war buildings and feature a rugged aesthetic of unpainted cast concrete "béton brut" and roughly detailed brickwork.

Tan Zi Jian 0318291Cheah Teck Wei 0315215Chew Ung Heng 0315397BAC Architecture Semester 2 September Intake 2014

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