Introduction

• Architect: Le Corbuiser• Materpiece: Maisons Jaoul• Years of Construction: 1954 – 1956• Location: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France. • In 1951, L.C. design two houses: one for Andre Jaoul and his wife, Suzanne

(House A), and one for their eldest son, Michel and his wife, Nadine (House B). • Both houses share a building system.

House B

House A

Le Corbusier1887-1965

Architect / Artist

TimelineBorn Switzerland on October 6,1887.

Designed his first house, in 1907, at age 20.

Le Corbusier traveled through central Europe and the Mediterranean, His travels included apprenticeships with various architects,Auguste Perret and Peter Behrens.

In 1917, he moved to Paris and assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier concrete structures under government contracts.

In 1918, Le Corbusier met Cubist painter Amédée Ozenfant, who encouraged Le Corbusier to paint. pair published the book Après le cubisme(After Cubism), an anti-cubism manifesto, and established a new artistic movement called purism.

In 1923, Le Corbusier published Versune Architecture (Toward a New Architecture).

In 1922, he proposed a new architecture that would satisfy the demands of industry, hence functionalism, and the abiding concerns of architectural form. His proposals included his first city plan, the Contemporary City, and two housing types that were the basis for much of his architecture throughout his life: the Maison Monol and, more famously, the Maison Citrohan.

In 1925-1926, he built a workers’ city of 40 houses in the style of the Citrohan house at Pessac, near Bordeaux.

In the 1930s, Le Corbusier reformulated his theories on urbanism, publishing them in La Ville radieuse (The Radiant City) in 1935.

ArtworksStill Life Filled With Space (1924)Abstract Composition (1927)

Le Corbusier’s Five Points of Architecture

• Pilotis – Replacement of supporting walls by a grid of reinforced concrete columns that bears the structural load is the basis of the new aesthetic.• The free designing of the ground plan—the absence of supporting walls—means

the house is unrestrained in its internal use.• The free design of the facade—separating the exterior of the building from its

structural function—sets the façade free from structural constraints.• The horizontal window, which cuts the façade along its entire length, lights rooms

equally.• Roof Gardens on a flat roof can serve a domestic purpose while providing

essential protection to the concrete roof.

StructuresVilla Savoye Notre Dame du Haut Unité d'habitation

Villa Radieuse Villa Stein

Maisons Jaoul

Basement Ground floor plan

First floor plan Second floor plan

Elevations

Section

Materials• Bricks, concrete, stone, glass and natural wood.• Exterior gives the concrete view of the structure and rustic red

brick materials are combined with unpainted wood and glass. • In the interior finishes of the same materials with brightly painted

walls, vaulted brick ceilings and floors unpolished overlap. • The exterior walls are unplastered on the outside, and on the

inside plastered to avoid condensation.

Exterior Interior

BRUTALISM• Was designed in 1951 and built between 1954 and 1956.• The brutalist stage of Le Corbusier began after the end of World War II

and was characterized by the use of reinforced concrete without paint or decorate.• L.C. left the gray concrete exposed and strict each of the five points

for a new architecture compliance.

• Rustic Brick Surface • Reinforced Concrete Plastered Mansonry Units • Cement & Rugged Brickwork • Roof Garden• Vaulting System

Contribution• Quality of light in interior spaces. • Fenestration.• Opening in wall structure.• Drama and subtlety.• Serenity & Emotional content.• Changing of light throughout the day adds to the sense of animation.

Circulation

House A House B

Catalan VaultHorizontality ideaContrast between the rectilinear slab

and the curvilinear roof

Curvature only at roof level

Vault System

Transformation

Video Link• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFcDOJLL70

References• http://www.biography.com/people/le-corbusier-9376609#early-years• http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Le-Corbusier.pdf• https://

smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/33952/masud_rabia_201005_mast.pdf• https://ourhouseisourworld.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/maisons-jaoul-formal-a

nalysis/• http://ialaenglish.blogspot.com/