Viaje oriente le corbusier biography
El viaje a Oriente
Here's the journal of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at twenty-four, long before his self-induced transformation into the architect and design-polemicist Le Corbusier, eventually one of the founders of International Style in the s.
But this is , and the world is a Nineteenth Century one. And Journey To The East is most notable, I think, as a period piece, an illustration of a time we can't imagine any longer, as encapsulated by a young man who was enraptured by it (and a little by his own impressions). At the turn of the century, The East meant only Central Europe and beyond, so an itinerary starting in Berlin and headed down the Danube toward the Balkans-- fit the bill.
Jeanneret's voice isn't so much unique as it is of-its-day, and highly impressionable; orientalisms abound --add to the mix the idea of who he would become, and there's an intriguing, slightly arriviste charge to the account. A world where electricity, the idea of 'traffic', and even the telephone are conspicuously absent-- becomes a kind of Conradian up-river affair for Little Corbu; the imagery becomes a bit hallucinatory at times, matched by long stream-of-consciousness passages.
But he also offers beautiful little line-drawings of what he sees all along the way, showing how he sees it, with a young man's enchantment in the framing. The sketches are w
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier studying architectural plans and a small model of building in his office, Paris, | |
| Born | October 6, () Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
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| Died | August 27, () (aged&#;77) Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France |
| Web | Aaaaarg, Wikipedia, |
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier ( – ), was an architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America.
Selected works
Villa Jeanneret-Perret, c
Villa Le Lac at Corseaux on Lake Geneva, s.
with Pierre Jeanneret, Maison Planeix,
with Pierre Jeanneret, Villa Savoye,
Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Savoye,
Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Radieuse, s.
Le Corbusier in front of the murals in Villa E he designed for Jean Badovici and Eillen Gray, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, c
The roof of Cité Radieuse, the compact Marseille community Le Corbusier built from , in its former life as a gym.
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp,
Publications
- Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne, (French)
- [as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret], with Amédée Ozenfant, Après le cubisme, Paris: Éditions des Commentaires, , 60 pp; facs. repr., intro. Carlo Olmo, Torino: Bottega d'Erasmo, Outlines the aesthetic approach of Purism. (French)
- "After Cubism", trans. John Goodman, in L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, , pp (English)
- Depois do cubismo, intro. Carlos A. Ferreira Martins, trans. Célia Euvaldo, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, , 88 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Vers une architecture, Paris: G. Crès et Cie, , pp. (French)
- Kommende Baukunst, trans. & ed. Hans Hildebrandt, Berlin/Stuttgart/Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags, , xv+ pp; new ed. as
Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier still stirs the waters of debate. The major exhibition held at the MoMA in emphasized the landscaping aspect of an oeuvre that tends to be perceived as being removed from context; the no less important show put on in at the Pompidou uses the Modulor to present a humanist view of a master often judged as the author of dehumanized architecture; and in contrast with these monumental celebrations, a new English-language biography and three texts published in French highlight the ideological and political aspects of a life journey that is both dazzling and somber.
The biography by Anthony Flint, intended for the public at large, presents Le Corbusier as the first ‘starchitect’ and has no qualms about using celebrity and sex to capture the reader’s attention, starting his story with the architect and Josephine Baker aboard the liner Lutetia, which in was the scene of their mythical romance. Acknowledging his debt to Le Corbusier scholars like H. Allen Brooks, William Curtis, or Jean-Louis Cohen, Flint offers a compact biography that will increase knowledge about him in the Anglo-Saxon world, but cannot replace the colossal work of Nicholas Fox Weber (Le Corbusier: A Life), the essential source on the master’s life since it came out in
In recent years, the publication of a good part of Le Corbusier’s copious correspondence has provided fuel to his biographers, and made it possible to chart his intellectual concerns and ideological links with greater precision. The main dark area, referring to the eighteen months between and that he spent in Vichy working for the collaborationist regime of Marshal Pétain, had already been addressed by American authors like Robert Fishman in and by Mary McLeod in her dissertation of , but had not affected his reputation significantly. However, this picture has suffered a media upheaval with the three works published in France this spring.
The most important is the one by the critic a
- The biography by Anthony Flint, intended
El viaje de Oriente
June 14,As an official part of his education, a traditional European young man of means and expectations would take himself off on a 'grand tour' of the Continent, in the years of the 18th and 19th centuries. It would be understood that he would return with some acquaintance with the fine arts, the salons of society and their denizens -- the disparate and unsettling ways of the world, more or less. And then, having had a mad dash at life, the courtly, bohemian, and maybe even not-so-reputable ways of the continent-- return to promptly immerse himself in the lifelong drudgery of administering his father's concerns.
Here's the journal of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at twenty-four, long before his self-induced transformation into the architect and design-polemicist Le Corbusier, eventually one of the founders of International Style in the s.
But this is , and the world is a Nineteenth Century one. And Journey To The East is most notable, I think, as a period piece, an illustration of a time we can't imagine any longer, as encapsulated by a young man who was enraptured by it (and a little by his own impressions). At the turn of the century, The East meant only Central Europe and beyond, so an itinerary starting in Berlin and headed down the Danube toward the Balkans-- fit the bill.
Jeanneret's voice isn't so much unique as it is of-its-day, and highly impressionable; orientalisms abound --add to the mix the idea of who he would become, and there's an intriguing, slightly arriviste charge to the account. A world where electricity, the idea of 'traffic', and even the telephone are conspicuously absent-- becomes a kind of Conradian up-river affair for Little Corbu; the imagery becomes a bit hallucinatory at times, matched by long stream-of-consciousness passages.
But he also offers beautiful little line-drawings of what he sees all along the way, showing how he sees it, with a young man's enchantment in the framing. The sketches are
- Kommende Baukunst, trans. & ed. Hans Hildebrandt, Berlin/Stuttgart/Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags, , xv+ pp; new ed. as