50 years ago the architect Le Corbusier passed away

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26.08.2015 17:45
Le Corbusier

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin - Simple shapes and clean surfaces that allow sunlight to pass unobstructed, rooftop gardens, and the dominant materials of reinforced concrete, steel, and glass. Such was the style of Swiss-French architect and painter Le Corbusier, who died 50 years ago, on August 27, 1965. With the purism he named, he inspired many other architects, including those from the Czech Republic.
    For his stark reinforced concrete buildings and visionary ideas for urban housing, Le Corbusier earned not only admiration but also misunderstanding and condemnation. His theory of "vertical garden cities," in which everything was to be monumental - large buildings, large open spaces, large highways - he attempted to bring to life, not very successfully, in India in the city of Chandigarh, and his students tried the same in Brasília.
    Born Charles Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, he created, in addition to world-famous furniture designs, a collection of sculptures, paintings, drawings, gouaches, collages, graphics, and tapestries, and he also lectured several times in Prague. He was enthusiastic about the Trade Fair Palace and created a plan for the development of Zlín, which, however, remained unrealized. He remarked on the appearance of Karlovy Vary at the time as a "convention of whipped cream cakes." Several Czech architects also worked in Le Corbusier's studio.
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