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A grammar for modern life
Le Corbusier turned modern architecture into a grammar of structure, movement, light, and lifestyle.
Le Corbusier
Portrait of Le Corbusier
Joop van Bilsen / Anefo · CC0 · SourceLe Corbusier made modern architecture a debate about cities, housing, proportion, standardization, and concrete civic form.
Life span1887 – 1965Nationality / Region瑞士StyleModern Architecture, Brutalism, International StyleEducation拉绍德封艺术学校
Modern ArchitectureBrutalismInternational Style
Portrait of Le Corbusier
Joop van Bilsen / Anefo · CC0 · SourceIdeas
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Five points
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Housing and modern life
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Modulor proportion
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Concrete civic form
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From house-machine to public mass
His postwar work thickened modernism into concrete, climate, monumentality, and collective life.
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Influence and argument
Le Corbusier remains essential because his proposals are both influential and deeply contested.
Reading the works
Unité d'Habitation
马赛, 法国 · 1952
A vertical community and postwar housing prototype.
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut
朗香, 法国 · 1955
A bodily and spiritual turn in modernism.
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