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Interna'onal Style Le Corbusier Le Corbusier • Swiss born • Changed name in 1920 o "the crow-line one" similar to grandfathers name • Studied architecture in Vienna with Josef Hoffmann o Geometrical structure and geometrical ornament • InternaConal exposiCon of decoraCve arts paris 1925 o The pavilion of the new spirit ▪ Completely revolCng art deco ▪ Geometrical structure ▪ Lack of ornament ▪ Early modernism (geometrical structure, lack of ornament) ▪ No art deco materials ▪ Keep moving forward, NEW ▪ Focus on factories and automobile design o "a tool object is aOuned to our movements and quick to respond to them"- tool object ▪ Furniture are tools- respond to our needs- adjusts to operator ▪ Building- new modern dwellings, machines for living in ▪ City- respond to needs, city planning • Domino House o Domus (house) innovaCon o Modular kit- put together house- came in pieces o FoundaCon blocks- adjust to site-all above ground ▪ Stack blocks to adjust to topography o No weight bearing walls- glass walls included o Can adjust a lot o No interior walls- open spaces

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Citrohan House o Citroen car- connecCon to cars and efficiency o "a city made for speed is a city made for success" o "houses, as efficient as a car" o PiloHs- post liI off ground ▪ LiX off level- balcony, car ports o "tool object"

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InternaHonal Style o PiloHs to adjust to any topography o Modular unit provide for variety of configuraHons o Modular unit provide for adjustments of funcHon o Geometric structure, no ornament Modulor man poster o Diagramming man o Looking at forms and proporCons o Body as tool object o Tool objects are objects used by man o Body in moCon o SecConing off human body ▪ Basic proporCons of human body and parts as tool objects o Golden secCon/raCo/mean proporCons ▪ 1:1.618 ▪ PHI ▪ Found in nature a lot ▪ SecCon off body: navel, heart, knee o Open hand: ▪ Peace and reconciliaCon ▪ Tool object o Many different poses of human ▪ Models of man- design buildings around proporCons of main tool object a human ▪ Ruler

Villa Savoye, Poissy France 1930 o PiloCs, stacking o “A House is machine for living in” o Tool object o Car port around house- can fit 3 o Geometric- volumes o Unadorned o Golden secCon*** ▪ Outside and interior rooms o Five Points toward a new architecturepublicaCon ▪ PiloHs ▪ Stack verHcals ▪ Free floor plan ▪ Strip windows

▪ Roof paHo Few interior walls See moving from one floor to another-spiral staircase Lots of glass used Open outdoor space on roof Entrance: ▪ Go up ramp- parking lots- repeated in interiors up to roof paCo Spiral staircase- golden raHo ▪ o Furniture was “Equipping a house, not decoraCng” • Shelves built in • CanClever table • Not decoraCng house Why called InternaHonal Style? o Museum Of Modern Art, NYC 1932 exhibit - Modern Architecture: internaConal exhibiCon ▪ “Early Modernism” characterisCcs • Use of recHlinear forms • Flat surfaces without ornament • Open interior space ▪ Other characterisCcs • Weightless qualiHes • CanHlever: open spaces • Use of glass • Concrete, steel, glass o Historians called it to internaConal style in 1932 Le Corbusier’s The Decora*ve Art of Today book 1925 o Furniture: human limb objects ▪ Extension of our limbs and adapted to human funcCons ▪ Equipment for home o CollaboraCng with CharloOe Perriand ▪ Perriand has an idea of ConfrontaHons: choice of materials/surfaces/colors/textures to juxtapose o Chair B301 ▪ By Le Corbusier and Perriand ▪ ConfrontaCon between materials, surfaces, colors, and textures ▪ Organic vs inorganic- texture and sleek o o o o o

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B 306 Chaise lounge ▪ ConfrontaCon- lamb skin vs metal ▪ Modular ▪ Adjust like kit ▪ Everything aOaches to it

Grand Confort (means big comfort) Chair ▪ Big comfort ▪ Slabs inside cage like ▪ Organic to inorganic ▪ Textures ▪ Modular kit ▪ Cage structure and can stack inside ▪ Cushion baskets ▪ Steve jobs used ▪ Expanded into love seat and sofa- golden raCo City planning o City of tomorrow- new city ▪ By Le Corbusier ▪ "high density.. High rise… modular city” ▪ Expand outward ▪ Plug in modules ▪ High rise: adjustable ▪ Climb upward- expands o

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