ARCH 219 (Lecture 10)
Le Corbusier
(born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret; 1887-1966). Born in French Switzerland, works for Perret in Paris and for Behrens in Berlin.
Le Corbusier.
Houses 14 and 15, Weissenhofsiedlung housing exhibition. Stuttgart, Germany (1925-27).
Mies van der Rohe.
Apartment building. Weissenhofsiedlung. Stuttgart, Germany (1927).
Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms. Living. Changing. New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form.
Mies van der Rohe.
Barcelona Pavilion (1929).
Raymond Hood and John Howells. Compare Mies's prismatic glass towers with the contemporaneous Chicago Tribune building.
Chicago Tribune Building. Chicago (1922-25).
Mies van der Rohe.
Counter-construction (1924). Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren. Brick Country House (1924).
Le Corbusier.
Four House Types (1929).
Mies van der Rohe.
Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper Project. Berlin (1921).
Mies van der Rohe Built to represent the Weimar Republic in an international context.
German Pavilion at the Barcelona International Exposition (aka Barcelona Pavilion; 1929).
Mies van der Rohe.
Glass skyscraper project (1922).
Le Corbusier.
Ground floor, Villa Savoye. Poissy, France (1929-31).
Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier's Five Points of a New Architecture: • Piloti • Free plan • Free façade • Horizontal windows • Roof terrace
Houses 14 and 15, Weissenhofsiedlung housing exhibition. Stuttgart, Germany (1925-27).
Le Corbusier.
Kitchen. Villa Savoye. Poissy, France (1929-31).
Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret.
L'Esprit Nouveau Pavilion, Decorative Arts Exposition. Paris (1925).
Works for Peter Behrens in Berlin 1908-1911. Expressionist phase after WWI, then develops more abstract style. Emigrates to US, becomes professor at Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology).
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969).
Le Corbusier.
Main floor. Villa Savoye. Poissy, France (1929-31).
Mies van der Rohe
Plans of Concrete Country House (1923), Lessing House 1923), Brick Country House (1924).
Le Corbusier.
Roof terrace. Villa Savoye. Poissy, France (1929-31).
Le Corbusier.
Toward an Architecture (1923).
Mies van der Rohe.
Tugendhat House. Brno, Czech Republic (1928-30).
Le Corbusier.
Villa Savoye. Poissy, France (1929-31).
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and others.
Weissenhofsiedlung. Stuttgart, Germany (1927.)
