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“PIONEER OF MODERN
ARCHITECTURE”.
❑ Le Corbusier was an Swiss born Architect.
Order. Those are the ❑ Between October 1910 and March 1911. He
things that men worked for renowned architect, Peter Behrens
near Berlin.
need just as much
as they need Bread ❑ In 1914, he designed and proposed an open
floor plan implementing his philosophies.
or a Place to sleep”. DOM-INO House.
-le Corbusier
❑ Began his own architectural practice in 1922
with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret – partnership
lasting 50 years.
THE
M ❑ It is an anthropometric scale of proportion
devised by him.
O
D ❑ Le Corbusier used the golden ratio in his
U modular system for the scale of architecture
proportion.
L
A ❑ It is based on the height of the English men
with the hand raised.
R
1. USE OF PILOTIS
I. Mechanical Analogy (reinforced concrete stilts)
2. FREE FAÇADE