Le Corbusier
Born in 1887, Charles Edouard Jenneret took his
nickname as Le Corbusier from his signature in architecture from the 1920s. Le
Corbusier designed his first building at the age of seventeen were then he made
his first trip to Italy. In 1916, when Le Corbusier has moved to Paris with the
idea that he was going to practice architecture there as well as designing,
Charles Edouard Jenneret published and edited ‘L’Esprit Nouveau’ and it was during that time when he adopted the
name Le Corbusier.
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| Le Corbusier |
Many of Le Corbusier projects have never been carried
out due to financial reasons. One such example is his winning competition for
the palace of the League of Nations. Le Corbusier believed that home was a
‘machine for living’ that should include functional furniture. It was around
this time when he designed his iconic tubular steel furniture.
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| Palace of the League Nations |
Le Corbusier, who also was an architect, produced
a series of proposals throughout his life. His proposals included his first
city plan, the Contemporary city and two housing types which were the basis for
his career as an architect and a designer. These are the ‘Maison Monol’ and the
‘Maison Citrohan’ which is also referred to as “machine of living.”
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| Maison Monol |
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| Maison Citrohan
Le Corbusier was one of a group
of architects to design the United Nations Headquarters in New York which the
Secretariat building is essentially Le Corbusier’s design. The Chapel of Notre
Dame du Haut, Ronchamp is another building in which Le Corbusier is famous to.
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| United Nations Headquarters |
The fact that Le Corbusier was an architect
centred the influence he left in that field. He created a proportioning system
based on the human body and through it he created a relationship between man
and architecture. Le Corbusier’s influence also reached the arms of urban
living. Throughout his career, Le Corbusier taught the world how to design
modern buildings with the elegance of historic monuments. His approach was
clean and simple yet effective. Today’s designers are grateful to Le Corbusier,
but he is much more appreciated by the residents of his houses and the visitors
of his public buildings. Every person values the feeling the space Le Corbusier
designed starting from the Chapel at Ronchamp to the Unite d’Habitation in
Marseille. These feelings will for sure be cherished by people throughout
different generations.
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| Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut - Ronchamp |
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| Unite d'Habitation - Marseille |
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| Villa Savoye |
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| LC3 1 Chair |
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| Chaise Lounge |
Arne Jacobsen
Born in 1902, Arne Jacobsen was an architect and
designer of furniture, textiles, lighting, wallpaper and silver ware.
Influenced by Le Cobusier, Gunnar Asplund and Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe,
Jacobsen has welcomed a new functionalist approach from the outset.
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| Arne Jacobsen |
His most well-known works are the design and
also the furniture of the SAS Air Terminal in Copenhagen and the SAS Royal
Hotel, where he designed every detail from ashtrays to airport shuttle bus. His
famous, elegant Swan chair and Egg chair are part of the sculptural furnishings
that Arne Jacobsen designed for the SAS Royal hotel amongst other furniture in
which he was called “the punch card” and “the glass cigar box” for his pleasing
designs.
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| One of the rooms of SAS Royal Hotel |
Jacobsen’s second most famous architectural
building was the St. Catherine’s College at Oxford University. There he
designed everything from the college dining room cutlery right down to the species
of fish for the ponds in the Jacobsen designed garden.
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| St. Catherine's College
Arne Jacobsen’s goal was the total quality of the
man-made environment and the independent success of his product designs. As an
architect, he wanted to have the control of a project and nothing was to be
left to chance. As he was obligated also with the details of the buildings, his
designed products are such of a high quality that although they were developed
in conjunction with the type and the specific of the building, they have such
universal application that they could become part of the standard production.
Many of his products have achieved the status of international classics and
have certainly helped his rise to certain heights.
Through his work, Arne Jacobsen left his mark on
generations of architects thus a very few Danes have achieved the same fame as
Arne Jacobsen, who today stands for some of his best works produced in the 20th
century.
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| Denmark's National Bank |
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| The Egg chair |
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| The Swan chair |
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| The Ant Chair |
References:
· CA Design, 2012. Le Corbusier [online] available at: http://www.cadesign.ie/inspired-by-designers/le-corbusier/ [accessed on 25th January, 2014]
· RIBA, 2014. Le Corbusier [online] available at: http://www.architecture.com/awards/royalgoldmedal/175exhibition/winnersbiogs/1950s/1953.aspx [accessed on 25th January, 2014]
· A+E Television Networks, 2013. Le Corbusier Biography [online] available at: http://www.biography.com/people/le-corbusier-9376609?page=1 [accessed on 25th January, 2014]
· Ramzi Naja, N.D. Le Corbusier’s Influence on Architecture and Society [online] available at: http://blog.ramzinaja.com/2010/07/research-paper-on-le-corbusiers.html [accessed on 25th January, 2014]
· CA Design, 2012. Arne Jacobsen [online] available at: http://www.cadesign.ie/inspired-by-designers/arne-jacobsen/ [accessed on 25th January,2014]
· Design Within Reach, 2014. Arne Jacobsen [online] available at: http://www.dwr.com/category/designers/h-l/arne-jacobsen.do [accessed on 25th January, 2014]
· Maraid, 2014. J is for… Arne Jacobsen (1902 -1971) [image online] available at: http://www.fireflyhouse.co.uk/blog/2011/10/j-is-for-arne-jacobsen-1902-1971/ [accessed on 25th January, 2014]
· Danmarks Nationalbank, 2013. The Architect Arne Jacobsen [online] available at: http://www.nationalbanken.dk/DNUK/AboutUs.nsf/side/The_architect_Arne_Jacobsen!OpenDocument [accessed on 25th January, 2014]
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