Le Corbusier and the radiant city concept

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: -, Technical University of Darmstadt, language: English, abstract: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, born October, 6th 1887, is known as one of the most important architects of the last century. Otherwise, he is also seen extremely controversial in-between his artistic municipality. According to his point of view of architecture as a complex art of construction, he also dealt with architectural theory, city planning, sculpture and designing of furniture. Additionally, he was creative in drawing and painting. In L Esprit Nouveau an artistic magazine published since 1920 he began to use the pseudonym Le Corbusier. §Due to architecture, Le Corbusier s so-called Five Points of a new Architecture are very important. These principles point out a radical architectural change in order to react to the accelerating progress of mechanization and its influence on social change. As a result, Le Corbusier especially dealt with the construction of accommodations to implement his complex theory consistently. So-called Doppelhaus in der Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart designed by Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier seems to be an example.§To give his theories and visions a suited area, Le Corbusier academically worked in architectural societies like Congr