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  2. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture is an architecture manifesto conceived by architect Le Corbusier. [1] It outlines five key principles of design that he considered to be the foundations of the modern architectural discipline, which would be expressed through much of his designs. [2]

  3. Ville Radieuse - Wikipedia

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    Design of Brasília – based upon the principles of the Ville radieuse. Ville radieuse (French pronunciation: [vil ʁaˈdjøːz]; lit. ' Radiant City ') was an unrealised urban design project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1930. It constitutes one of the most influential and controversial urban design doctrines of ...

  4. Le Corbusier - Wikipedia

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    Le Corbusier revolutionized urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). [114] One of the first to realize how the automobile would change human society, Le Corbusier conceived the city of the future with large apartment buildings isolated in a park-like setting on pilotis. Le Corbusier ...

  5. Theories of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    Urban planning can include urban renewal, by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from decline. Alternatively, it can concern the massive challenges associated with urban growth, particularly in the Global South. [3] All in all, urban planning exists in various forms and addresses many different issues. [4]

  6. History of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    Model of Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin from 1925. The Hufeisensiedlung ("Horseshoe Estate") is a housing estate in Berlin, built in 1925–33 designed by architect Bruno Taut, municipal planning head and co-architect Martin Wagner, garden architect Leberecht Migge and Neukölln gardens director Ottokar Wagler.

  7. Plan Voisin - Wikipedia

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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]

  8. Athens Charter - Wikipedia

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    The Athens Charter (French: Charte d'Athènes, Greek: Χάρτα των Αθηνών) was a 1933 document about urban planning published by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The work was based upon Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse (Radiant City) book of 1935 and urban studies undertaken by the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM ...

  9. Structuralism (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Examples of urban planning and urban structuring. About the relation between historic and contemporary architecture Le Corbusier wrote: "I was labelled a revolutionary, whereas my greatest teacher was the Past. My so-called revolutionary ideas are straight out of the history of architecture itself."