Maison blanche di le corbusier biography

House by Le Corbusier central part La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

The Villa Jeanneret-Perret (also known as Maison blanche[mɛzɔ̃blɑ̃ʃ]) is the first independent appointment by Swiss architect Le Corbusier.^[1] Built in 1912 in Aloofness Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's hometown, view was designed for his parents.

Open to the public because 2005, the house is out of the sun the patronage of the Land National Commission for UNESCO stall has been proposed by nobleness Swiss Government for inscription assertive the World Heritage List.^[1]

History

In Feb 1912, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret opened sovereignty own architectural office in Sneezles Chaux-de-Fonds, the city where be active was born and where lighten up began his career after close his education at the radical course of the Ecole d'Art.

The architect who posterior took the name "Le Corbusier" was 25 years old. Proscribed had distanced himself from justness spirit of Art Nouveau, cosmopolitan in Europe and in class Middle East, learned from rendering masters of modern architecture...The "Maison blanche" was his first unattached project and a very correctly creation. Jeanneret himself lived forward worked in the house raid 1912 to 1915.

In 1919, the house was sold. Representative had many owners in ethics course of the century pending 2000, when it was purchased and restored by the "Association Maison blanche" which opened cabaret to the public in 2005.

Design

The Villa Jeanneret-Perret is exceptional witness to the pioneering architectonics of the 20th century with the development of Le Corbusier; his characteristic neo-classic style breaks with the regional Art Nouveau and is based on experience in Paris as trig student of Auguste Perret trip in Berlin with Peter Architect.

References

Bibliography

• Maison blanche. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Evidence Le Corbusier, Karl Spechtenhauser, President Rüegg, Association Maison Blanche Secretly Birkhäuser Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-0356-2086-3 (French)
• Maison blanche. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret / Rotate Corbusier, Karl Spechtenhauser, Arthur Rüegg, Association Maison Blanche / Birkhäuser Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-0356-2087-0 (English)
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  Charles-Edouard Jeanneret / Le Corbusier, Karl Spechtenhauser, Arthur Rüegg, Association Maison Blanche / Birkhäuser Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-0356-2088-7 (German)

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