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Villa Savoye.

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The Five Points of a New Architecture

Le Corbusier's strange obsession with E.1027

Furniture

Le Corbusier's strangeobsession with E.1027

Eileen Gray designed and built the villa known as E.1027 as a vacation home on an

isolated stretch of the French Riviera on the western side of Cap Martin

overlooking the Bay of Monaco for her lover, architect and critic Jean Badovici. The

home was completed in 1929. The name of the house sounds very impersonal, but

it is actually a code for their intertwined names. The E is for Eileen, and the 10 is

for J, the tenth letter in the alphabet. The 2 is for B, and the 7 is for G.

Both Badovici and Gray knew him,

who was considered the most

prominent modernist architect of

the time. In fact, Le Corbusier had

encouraged her work early in her

career and had become fascinated

with her as a person and an artist.

He developed an obsessive interest

in E.1027, and in 1938 he entered

the house and painted a series of

eight sexual murals on the walls.

In the 1952 Le Corbusier built a

wooden structure knows as the

Cabanon near E.1027, so he could

look at the house constantly. When

Badovici died in 1956, he built a two-

storey hostel overlooking the house.

In 1965 Le Corbusier had a heart

attack and died while swimming in

the waters outside E.1027.

Le Corbusier, his wife and Jean Badovici

Le Corbusier painting one of the murals at

E.1027

Le Corbusier and one of the muralsCorbu relaxing at Villa E-1027

For those of you curious about the scar on Le Corbusier's leg, he was injured in 1938 while swimming in Saint-Tropez Bay. He was trapped under a yacht as it

passed over him, and the propeller blades cut him badly.

Villa Savoye.

Is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using

reinforced concrete.A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points" of new architecture, the villa is

representative of the bases of modern architecture. The house was originally built as a country retreat on behest of the Savoye family. During WWII the Jewish Savoye

family was sent to concentration camps by the Nazis who took over the house and used it for storage. After being purchased by the neighbouring school it passed on to

be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965

Villa Savoye. Interiors (1931))

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Le Corbusier began experimenting withfurniture design in 1928 after invitingthe architect, Charlotte Perriand, tojoin his studio. His cousin, PierreJeanneret, also collaborated on manyof the designs. Before the arrival ofPerriand, Le Corbusier relied onready-made furniture to furnish hisprojects, such as the simple piecesmanufactured by Thonet, the companythat manufactured his designs in the1930s.Le Corbusier's Furniture is a classicfurniture line created by Le Corbusier.The line was introduced in 1928 at theSalon d‘Autumne in Paris by LeCorbusier and his team of designers.He defined human-limb objects as:"Extensions of our limbs and adaptedto human functions that are type-needs and type-functions, thereforetype-objects and type-furniture. Thehuman-limb object is a docile servant.A good servant is discreet and self-effacing in order to leave his masterfree. Certainly, works of art are tools,beautiful tools. And long live the goodtaste manifested by choice, subtlety,proportion, and harmony".

Model No. B302 swivel chair, 1928-

1929

Chromed bent tubular steel, leather

Design: Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret,

Charlotte Perriand

Production: Thonet Frères, Austria

Reissue: Cassina, Italy

The Le Corbusier group referred to

their LC2 and LC3 collections (1928)

as "cushion baskets," which they

designed as a modernist response to

the traditional club chair.

Charlotte Perriand on the B306 Chaise Longue,

1928

Chromed bent tubular steel, leather

Design: Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Edouard

Jeanneret

Production: Thonet Freres, Austria

Reissue: Cassina, Italy

Universidad Autónoma de SinaloaFacultad de Arquitectura

Comprensión de Documentos en la Lectura de Ingles.

Arq. Claudia Aispuro Espinoza

Magazine: “Le Corbusier”

Team:Aragón Amarillas Martha Ma.

Esparza López Nirzia Gpe.Martínez Orozco Ángel Eduardo

Pineda Sánchez AlejandraUrbano Zamora Vicente Eduardo