LE CORBUSIER ( 1887-1965) Le Corbusier has an original name Charles Edouard Jeanneret who was born in Switzerland in 1887. He was the second son of a dial painter‚ and a musician teacher. He is the most influential architect of the 20th century. He was an architect‚ designer‚ painter‚ writer‚ and city planner‚active mostly in France . He was one of the pioneers of modern architecture‚ which he considered as International Style. In 1907‚ after completing his first building project‚ Villa Pallet
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for the TWA Terminal‚ JFK Airport‚ New York‚ where he captured the excitement of flight with giant wings of concrete. Other examples of the Neo-Expressionism style of architecture are the Sydney‚ Australia‚ Opera House‚ by Jorn Utzon‚ the work of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright • American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is the most famous architect of the twentieth century and one of the most prolific. Wright defined his Prairie
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two starchitects Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe became the cornerstone for modernism architecture in 20th century. Until today‚ it is still the foundation for the development of architecture throughout the world. However‚ these two architects found their distinction in expressing their own modernism. Villa Savoye and Barcelona Pavilion are the landmarks in the success of Corbusier and Mies‚ also the discrimination in architectural styles of the two. Villa Savoye of Corbusier encountered Barcelona
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In Le Corbusier works in other cities‚ the pattern he was working on is obvious. Probably he would use the same pattern in Beirut. Downtown Beirut already exists as the center of the whole city named as (solider). It consists of both residential buildings and commercial buildings with many restaurants and cafes serving mostly for wealthy people. Le Corbusier would have rearranged this center to serve mostly for commercial needs especially as high skyscrapers for offices and some residential flats
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What is Post-Modernism? The aim of this essay is to explain how Post-Modernism has influenced our contemporary built environment and explain what other movements have derived from it. I would argue that Post-Modernism is a worldwide movement in all arts and disciplines. A definition of postmodernism will provide a better understanding of the trend that would show how it is relevant to contemporary culture and important for the future. Postmodernism became an important movement right after
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Henry van de Velde Theatre des Champs Elysees Hendrick Berlage Laborsa ad Amsterdam Ieoh Ming Pei Bank of China‚ Hong Kong Inigo Jones Banqueting House‚ London James Stirling Staatsgallerie‚ Stuttgart Joseph Paxton Chrystal Palace Kenzo Tange Fuji TV Headquarters Louis Sullivan Auditorium Building‚ Chicago Louis Kahn Salk Institute‚ California Le Corbusier Unite d’ Habitacion‚ France Oscar Niemeyer Catedral de Brasilia Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Seagram
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Barcelona Pavilion The Barcelona Pavilion (Catalan: Pavelló alemany; Spanish: Pabellón alemán; "German Pavilion")‚ designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‚ was the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona‚ Spain. This building was used for the official opening of the German section of the exhibition. Technically this building should be called the German Pavilion in Barcelona‚ since it was constructed as a temporary building for the International Exposition in Barcelona of 1929
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individual spectator in every age‚ rather than the ‘necessarily direct and sensuous experience’ which Scott claims architecture requires. Modernist architect Le Corbusier 2 concentrated his efforts on redefining artistic standards by glorifying industrial forms and promoting deterministic belief in the advancement of civilization. Le Corbusier selected a concept from his time (machine) and created his own architectural expression for that period. His Villa Savoye 1931 3 is a good modernist example
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Modernism In the arts‚ a radical break with the past and concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century‚ particularly in the years following World War I. In an era characterized by industrialization‚ rapid social change‚ advances in science and the social sciences (e.g.‚Darwinism‚ Freudian theory)‚ Modernists felt a growing alienation incompatible with Victorian morality‚ optimism‚ and convention
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architecture: a critical history -It then became clear to me that it was not the task of architecture to invent form. I tried to understand what that task was… the others said‚ ‘what we build is architecture’‚ but we weren’t satisfied with this answer. By mies -The idea of a clear construction came to be there‚ as one of the fundamentals we should accept. We can talk about that easily but to do it is not easy. I is very difficult to stick to this fundamental construction‚ and then to elevate it to a structure
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