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Le Corbusier | Legendary Trendsetter of Modern Architecture
Posted by BenzuJK in Biographies on March 4, 2010
“Architecture is the play of forms under light.”
Le Corbusier - The legend
Charles Edouard Jeanneret was born at La Chaux de Fonds on October 6, 1887 and later adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier. He came from a family of watch engravers in Switzerland, and his mother was a musician.
He grew to maturity in the intellectually stimulating city of Paris and adopted French nationality. He travelled extensively and learnt many lessons from the classical architecture of Greece and the Europen cities.
He became a powerful thinker of new urban theories and propounded a bold, modern architecture. In 1951, he was appointed Architectural Adviser to the Punjab government for designing the new capital city, Chandigarh. This city represents the expression of his revolutionary ideas and is where his greatest monuments have been erected.
Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright became the pioneers of Modern Architecture….
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World Renowned Projects of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
Posted by BenzuJK in Architecture, Biographies on January 1, 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Centre, Wiscosin. Wright contributed the ‘Prairie’ and ‘Usonian’ styles to American residential architecture. Elements of his designs can be found in a large proportion of homes built today.
Wright studied civil engineering briefly at the University of Wisconsin. At 20 years of age, he joined a Chicago architectural firm as a draftsman. Wright eventually became chief draftsman and supervised the firm’s residential designs. Wright started his own firm in 1893, and began developing ideas for his ‘Prairie House’ Concept and later on became the pioneer of ‘Organic Architecture‘.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. – Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright | His philosophy of Architecture
Posted by BenzuJK in Architecture, Biographies on December 17, 2009
“ A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart”.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Centre, Wiscosin. Wright contributed the ‘Prairie’ and ‘Usonian’ styles to American residential architecture. Elements of his designs can be found in a large proportion of homes built today.
Wright studied civil engineering briefly at the University of Wisconsin. At 20 years of age, he joined a Chicago architectural firm as a draftsman. Wright eventually became chief draftsman and supervised the firm’s residential designs. Wright started his own firm in 1893, and began developing ideas for his ‘Prairie House’ Concept.
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Le Corbusier | The Legend
Posted by BenzuJK in Biographies on December 12, 2009
Legendary Architect Le Corbusier
- Le Corbusier – A Legend
- Born on October 6, 1887
- Swiss-French architect, painter, and writer
- development of modern architecture
- Le Corbusier designed his first project at the age of nineteen with a local architect.
- studied modern building construction under Auguste Perret in Paris
- He also worked in Berlin in the architectural office of Peter Behrens.
- In 1912, after returning to his hometown, he taught architecture in L’Éplattenier’s industrial art school
- Worked with German architect Josef Hoffmann.
- In 1917, Le Corbusier left his homwtown La Chaux-de-Fonds and moved to Paris
- In 1918 he lost the sight of one eye, a traumatic event, which affected his spatial orientation.
- In 1922, partnership with Pierre Jeanneret.
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