The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier is a World Heritage Site consisting of a selection of 17 building projects in seven countries by the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. These sites demonstrate how modern movement architecture was applied to respond to the needs of society and show the global reach of an architectural style and an architect. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965), known as Le Corbusier, was an architectural designer, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now referred to as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and acquired French nationality in 1930. He designed buildings all over the world, and he was an important representative of the 20th-century modernist movement, which introduced new architectural techniques to meet the needs of the changing society. He revolutionised urban planning and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne.
Modern architecture, also called "the modern movement", is an architectural movement that was prominent in the 20th century. Modern architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction (particularly the use of glass, steel, and concrete); the principle of functionalism (i.e. that form should follow function); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. The properties that comprise this site are of various building types and include individual houses, apartment buildings, a factory, a chapel, a monastery, a legislative assembly, a museum and a cultural centre. Some of the French sites were added as a group to France's tentative list of World Heritage Sites in 2006, and the whole group of 17 sites was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2016, during the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Istanbul.
Sites
| Name | Picture | Location | UNESCO ID Property area | Coordinates | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maisons La Roche et Villa Jeanneret | Paris, France | 1321-001 0.097 ha (0.24 acres) | 48°51′6.7″N 2°15′55.3″E / 48.851861°N 2.265361°E | La Roche-Jeanneret house is a pair of semi-detached houses that was Corbusier's third commission in Paris. They are laid out at right angles to each other. The house exhibits cubist art and purism. The house is designed to be experiential and viewed from a single, fixed point. | |
| Petite villa au bord du lac Léman | Corseaux, Switzerland | 1321-002 0.04 ha (0.099 acres) | 46°28′6.3″N 6°49′45.6″E / 46.468417°N 6.829333°E | Villa "Le Lac" Le Corbusier is a residential building on Lake Geneva in Corseaux, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, between 1923 and 1924. The building was designed for Le Corbusier's parents, and makes use of three of Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture: the free plan, the roof terrace, and the horizontally-oriented "ribbon" window. | |
| Cité Frugès de Pessac | Pessac, France | 1321-003 2.179 ha (5.38 acres) | 44°47′56.0″N 0°38′52.4″W / 44.798889°N 0.647889°W | Cité Frugès de Pessac is a housing development located in Bordeaux, that was commissioned by the industrialist Henri Frugès in 1924. It was intended to function as worker housing and designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who were responsible for the master plan and individual buildings. | |
| Maison Guiette | Antwerp, Belgium | 1321-004 0.0103 ha (0.025 acres) | 51°11′1.2″N 4°23′35.7″E / 51.183667°N 4.393250°E | Maison Guiette, also known as Les Peupliers, is a house in Antwerp, designed by Le Corbusier in 1926 and built in 1927. It was the studio and living quarters of René Guiette, a painter and art critic. | |
| Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung | Stuttgart, Germany | 1321-005 0.1165 ha (0.288 acres) | 48°47′59.4″N 9°10′39.6″E / 48.799833°N 9.177667°E | This listing comprises two buildings of the Weissenhof Estate, a housing estate in Stuttgart. It was built for the 1927 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition, an international showcase of modern architecture. | |
| Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner | Poissy, France | 1321-006 1.036 ha (2.56 acres) | 48°55′27.9″N 2°1′42.0″E / 48.924417°N 2.028333°E | Villa Savoye is a villa and gate lodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris. It was built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete. The house was originally built as a country retreat for the Savoye family. | |
| Immeuble Clarté | Genève, Switzerland | 1321-007 0.15 ha (0.37 acres) | 46°12′0.6″N 6°9′23.1″E / 46.200167°N 6.156417°E | Immeuble Clarté is an eight-storey apartment building in Geneva. The design process for the building started from 1928 and it was built between 1931–32. It has 45 free plan units of diverse configurations and sizes. | |
| Immeuble locatif à la Porte Molitor | Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France | 1321-008 0.032 ha (0.079 acres) | 48°50′36.2″N 2°15′4.6″E / 48.843389°N 2.251278°E | Immeuble Molitor is an apartment building in Paris built between 1931 and 1934. It was Le Corbusier's base in the city until his death in 1965. | |
| Unité d’habitation Marseille (Cité radieuse) | Marseille, France | 1321-009 3.648 ha (9.01 acres) | 43°15′40.9″N 5°23′46.2″E / 43.261361°N 5.396167°E | Unité d'habitation was a prototype of a new housing model intended for mass production. It is seventeen storeys high and was designed to house 1,600 people. The building has different types of apartments, as well as shops and communal rooms. | |
| La Manufacture à Saint-Dié | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France | 1321-010 0.762 ha (1.88 acres) | 48°17′27.0″N 6°57′0.9″E / 48.290833°N 6.950250°E | The Claude and Duval factory is the only industrial building designed by Le Courbusier. It consists of three storeys raised on piles and was completed in 1950. | |
| Curutchet House | La Plata, Argentina | 1321-011 0.027 ha (0.067 acres) | 34°54′40.8″S 57°56′30.6″W / 34.911333°S 57.941833°W | The Curutchet House in La Plata was commissioned by Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet, a surgeon, in 1948. The three-storey structure included a house, with consulting rooms on the ground floor. | |
| Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp | Ronchamp, France | 1321-012 2.734 ha (6.76 acres) | 47°42′16.2″N 6°37′14.8″E / 47.704500°N 6.620778°E | Notre-Dame du Haut is a Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp. It was built in 1950. It has different-sized windows which are irregularly scattered across the walls. | |
| Cabanon de Le Corbusier | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France | 1321-013 0.198 ha (0.49 acres) | 43°45′35.0″N 7°27′48.2″E / 43.759722°N 7.463389°E | Cabanon de Le Corbusier is a small cottage, less than 15 m2 (160 sq ft) in area, having only two windows. It was built in 1951 as Le Corbusier's vacation home. | |
| Complexe du Capitole | Chandigarh, India | 1321-014 66 ha (160 acres) | 30°45′27″N 76°48′20″E / 30.75750°N 76.80556°E | The Chandigarh Capitol Complex is a government compound in Chandigarh. It comprises three buildings: the Palace of Assembly (pictured), the Secretariat Building and the High Court, four monuments (the Open Hand Monument, Geometric Hill, the Tower of Shadows and the Martyrs Monument) and a lake. | |
| Couvent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette | Éveux, France | 1321-015 17.923 ha (44.29 acres) | 45°49′9.8″N 4°37′21″E / 45.819389°N 4.62250°E | Couvent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette is a Dominican Order monastery completed in 1960. It has five storeys, two of which are underground, and includes 104 cells. | |
| Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident | Tokyo, Japan | 1321-016 0.93 ha (2.3 acres) | 35°42′55″N 139°46′33″E / 35.71528°N 139.77583°E | The main building of National Museum of Western Art was designed by Le Corbusier. It is the only representative example of his work in the Far East. The museum was built to house the collection of works gathered by the industrialist Kōjirō Matsukata. | |
| Maison de la Culture de Firminy | Firminy, France | 1321-017 2.601 ha (6.43 acres) | 45°22′59.5″N 4°17′20.6″E / 45.383194°N 4.289056°E | Maison de la Culture is a cultural centre located in Firminy, in the Loire region of France. |
Location maps
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See also
- List of World Heritage Sites in France
- Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau
- List of Gaudí buildings#UNESCO World Heritage Site
- The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
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