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By Eddie
le corbusier
Charles-douard Jeanneret-Gris,
who was better known as Le
Corbusier ;(October 6, 1887
August 27, 1965), was a SwissFrench architect, designer, painter,
urban planner, writer, and one of
the pioneers of what is now called
modern architecture. He was born
in Switzerland and became a
French citizen in 1930. His career
spanned five decades, with his
buildings constructed throughout
Europe, India, and the Americas.
Education
Experience(part)
In his early years he would frequently escape the somewhat provincial atmosphere
of his hometown by traveling around Europe.
In September 1907, he made his first trip outside of Switzerland, going to Italy;
then that winter traveling through Budapest to Vienna, where he would stay for
four months and meet Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffman.
Between October 1910 and March 1911, he worked near Berlin for the renowned
architect Peter Behrens, where he may have met Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and
Walter Gropius. He became fluent in German. More than anything during this
period, it was his visit to the Charterhouse of the Valley of Ema that influenced his
architectural philosophy profoundly for the rest of his life.
He believed that all people should have the opportunity to live as beautifully and
peacefully as the monks he witnessed in the sanctuaries at the charterhouse.
The free designing of the ground planthe absence of supporting wallsmeans the
house is unrestrained in its internal use.
The free design of the faadeseparating the exterior of the building from its
structural functionsets the faade free from structural constraints.
The horizontal window, which cuts the faade along its entire length, lights rooms
equally.
Roof gardens on a flat roof can serve a domestic purpose while providing essential
protection to the concrete roof
Villa Savoye
Memorials
Place Le Corbusier, Paris, near the site of his atelier on the Rue de Svres.
Josef Albers
Background knowledge
In 1918 he received his first public commission, Rosa mystica ora pro nobis, a
stained-glass window for a church in Essen.
He continued his studies from 1920 to 1923 at the Bauhaus Weimar where he
enrolled in the preliminary course taught by Johannes Itten and attended the
glass painting workshop.
In 1923, Walter Gropius appointed him to the teaching staff of the Bauhaus.
Here, he represented the classical Bauhaus concept whereby every artistic
activity was to be developed according to both the function of the piece and
the properties of the material. He received a teaching commission for the
preliminary course and also became an apprentice master of works in the
glass painting workshop.
In 1925, Walter Gropius appointed him as a junior master. In the same year,
he married the Bauhaus student Anneliese (Anni) Fleischmann.
Anni Albers
Architecture of Josef
Drawing of josef
Glass work
Leaf studies
Paint of josef
Structural Constellations
Weavings of annie
http://www.albersfoundation.org/art/anni-albers/weavings/index/
Stacking Tables
A video
http://www.albersfoundation.org/teaching/josef-albers/introduction/