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Located in Boulogne-sur-Seine, it was built in 1926 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret; and commissioned by American journalist William Cook and his French wife, Jeanne. [17] Le Corbusier deemed the house as "the true cubic house" (French: la vraie maison cubique), as its constructional plan originated from a square, rendering its cubic form ...
The sculptor Jacques Lipchitz introduced them to architect Le Corbusier, then largely unknown, who, during this time, was designing a series of villas, including innovative homes for Michael Stein (Gertrude's brother) and Lipchitz himself. In 1926, they commissioned the architect to design what Le Corbusier said was the first "true cubic house ...
1914 Norman House, Deauville. 1915 House at Lons-sur-Saunier. 1916–21 Paul Poiret House. 1916 Fritz Zbinden House, Erlach. 1916 Administrative building, Le Locle. 1917 Abattoir, Challuy and Garchizy. 1917 Workers housing, near Dieppe. 1917 Dam, l'ile Jourdain. 1918 Factory, Saintes. 1918 Workers housing. 1919 Pre-cast concrete houses, Troyes.
Axonometric sketch of the house in its urban context. La Roche-Jeanneret house, is a pair of semi-detached houses that was Corbusier's third commission in Paris. They are laid out at right angles to each other. The house exhibits cubist art and purism. The house is designed to be experiential and viewed from a single, fixed point. [2]
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (UK: / l ə k ɔːr ˈ b juː z i. eɪ / lə kor-BEW-zee-ay, [2] US: / l ə ˌ k ɔːr b uː z ˈ j eɪ,-b uː s ˈ j eɪ / lə KOR-booz-YAY, -booss-YAY, [3] [4] French: [lə kɔʁbyzje]), [5] was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is ...
Le Corbusier 47°06′18″N 6°49′00″E / 47.105067°N 6.816687°E / 47.105067; 6.816687 Villa Fallet is a traditional chalet located in La Chaux-de-Fonds , Switzerland designed and built by the eighteen-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965), who later became better known as Le Corbusier
Dom-Ino House (French: Maison Dom-Ino) is an open floor plan modular structure designed by the pioneering architect Le Corbusier in 1914–1915. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This design became the foundation for most of his architecture for the next ten years.
The White House is the first house in Cambridge to be designed in the Modernist style, [1] [2] [3] and one of the earliest in Britain. [1] The house is an example of a flat-roofed, white-rendered Cubist construction drawing direct inspiration from Le Corbusier's work in France, [2] referred to as the International Style or International Modern style.