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
Connections
- authored Villa Savoye
- authored Notre-Dame du Haut (Ronchamp)
- proposed The Five Points / The Free Plan
- proposed The Architectural Promenade
- authored La Charte d'Athènes / The Athens Charter
- founded Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
- associated with Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
Referenced by
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc influenced
- Adolf Loos influenced
- Aldo Rossi critiqued
- Manfredo Tafuri critiqued
- Karel Teige critiqued
- Charles Fourier influenced
- Ebenezer Howard influenced
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 September 1, 2026.