Essay On Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier is a world famous architect, writer and urban planner whose ideas and designs have shaped the way we see architecture today. His eccentric ideas and devotion to bettering the downfalls of urbanization are what led to his five decades of fame in the architectural community. Below is the story of how he became known as what he is today.

Le Corbusier was born in a small town in Northwest Switzerland Known as La Chaux-de-Fonds on October 6th, 1887. Le Corbusier was born Charles-Eduard Jeanneret-Gris only to later change his name to Le Corbusier in 1920. He was born second son to a watch maker Eduard Jeanneret who painted the dials on every watch in their home towns renowned watch factory. His mother Madame Jeannerct-Perrct was a piano teacher and musician. Both parents obtaining artistic careers made Le Corbusier inept to have a career in which he would use his artistic skills. Growing up in the Jura mountains and his families love for the arts are what would later influence his career.

At age 13 Le Corbusier had finished and left grade school to move on to attend Arts Decoratifs in his home city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Here a young Le would learn the art of facing watches, just like his father, through enameling and engraving. While attending Arts Decoratifs Le Corbusier was under the influence of his teacher L’ Eplattenier who he would later refer to as his “Master” and only teacher. Under L’ Eplattenier’s instruction a young Le Corbusier would learn the history of art, drawing and the naturalistic attributes of newly developed art. With his in depth teachings of art Le Corbusier soon abandoned his previous career of watch making and further continued his education in decoration and art intending to eventually...

... middle of paper ...

...t known as Union Territory Chandigarh, which became India’s first planned city. In this Le Corbusier designed administration buildings, a university, courthouse and parliament building.

After these projects Le Corbusier continued his architectural and urban planning career until his death on August 27th, 1965. Le Corbusier was an influential part of many projects throughout his life and is one of the worlds most renowned architects and urban planner. I believe he was so successful and well known due to his diverse education and careers as a famous architect, urban planner, artist and writer. It is not very common to have such a diverse person like Le Corbusier and I believe that unfortunately a lot of his designs were too far ahead of his time, and his five points of architecture resemble the sustainable approach to building that we are seeing in our generation.