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In 1922, Le Corbusier presented Ville Contemporaine at Salon d'Automne; the plan was a utopian urban concept intended to house three million inhabitants in a series of skyscrapers. Following the exhibition, Le Corbusier continued work on the project, developing the plan from a non site-specific concept to a concrete proposal. [1]
In the late 1920s Le Corbusier lost confidence in big business to realise his dreams of utopia represented in the Ville Contemporaine and Plan Voisin (1925). Influenced by the linear city ideas of Arturo Soria y Mata (which Milyutin also employed) and the theories of the syndicalist movement (that he had recently joined) he formulated a new vision of the ideal city, the Ville Radieuse. [2]
In 1926, Le Corbusier received the opportunity he had been looking for; he was commissioned by a Bordeaux industrialist, Henry Frugès, a fervent admirer of his ideas on urban planning, to build a complex of worker housing, the Cité Frugès, at Pessac, a suburb of Bordeaux. Le Corbusier described Pessac as "A little like a Balzac novel", a ...
Following a 1920 meeting with Le Corbusier, Frugès commissioned a small worker housing complex (~10 units) near his sawmill in Lège to allow Le Corbusier to test his ideas about purism, standardization, efficiency, and machine production. Before construction began on the Lège project, Frugès commissioned Pessac (135 units) as a larger-scale ...
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement is a World Heritage Site consisting of a selection of 17 building projects in several countries by the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. [1]
Le Corbusier further employed the morphology in his 1930 plan for Paris, the Ville Radieuse (also unrealized). Owing to the wide diffusion and influence of these two plans and their ideas post– World War II , especially the latter, the "tower in the park" morphology spread throughout Europe and North America.
The Ville contemporaine (French pronunciation: [vil kɔ̃tɑ̃pɔʁɛn], Contemporary City) was an unrealized utopian planned community intended to house three million inhabitants designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1922.
Apartment building with similar facades to two streets. Contains le Corbusier's own apartment; World Heritage Site (2016) [2] Villa le Setout: Marennes: France: 1935: Young Mans Apartment Brussels Belgium 1935 Weekend house La Celle St Cloud France 1934 1935 Palace of Ministry of National Education and Public Health: Rio de Janeiro: Brazil ...