Theorist
Le Corbusier
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Details
- Nationality
- Swiss-French
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
[DRAFT] Swiss-French architect and theorist (born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) whose Vers une architecture (1923) declared the house 'a machine for living in', and whose Five Points, Modulor and Radiant City projects made him the central figure of the International Style and modern urban planning.
Connections
- authored Villa Savoye
- authored Notre-Dame du Haut (Ronchamp)
- proposed The Architectural Promenade
- proposed The Five Points / The Free Plan
- associated with Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
- founded Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
- authored La Charte d'Athènes / The Athens Charter
Referenced by
- Manfredo Tafuri critiqued
- Aldo Rossi critiqued
- Adolf Loos influenced
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc influenced
- Charles Fourier influenced
- Ebenezer Howard influenced
- Karel Teige critiqued
Sources
- Le Corbusier. Toward an Architecture (Vers une architecture). Getty Research Institute, 2007.
- Nicholas Fox Weber. Le Corbusier: A Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 12 of 34
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Le Corbusier." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/le-corbusier/. Accessed July 17, 2026.