Le Corbusier

By Sarbjit Bahga A Nepal-born American architect asked me to pen some untold anecdotes and stories of Pierre Jeanneret. He intended to know something more and different about Pierre Jeanneret, his personality and relationship with his staff and his ways of tackling senior functionaries of the government. I found the…

Architect, designer, urbanist, painter, and writer — I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies." — Le Corbusier. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer. He was one of the pioneers of modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a…

The period of metropolis represents one of the most significant multidisciplinary transformations in human history. An ambitious cause with extraordinary effect that will constantly be shaping the future life and city of today. The first and second technological revolution in the beginning of the 19century in the United Kingdom and…

So you’ve seen this building right? Or at least you've heard of it. Villa Savoye. Located in the French countryside & designed by Le Corbusier. The question is, why is it such a big deal? What’s so special about this building and what’s so special about Le Corbusier? TLDR version: Le Corbusier…

Every day during the trip to Paris, where I stayed, the Eiffel Tower shone brightly and Parisienne walked around with paper bags of French bread. About an hour from Paris, the train to the Villa Savoye brought me to the town, which was slightly overcast and unglamorous, but a place…

Photographic documentation of the architectural masterpiece Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut

Le Corbusier defined the international modernist movement like no other. The Swiss-French architect, painter, and author revolutionized the architectural discourse with his Five Points of Architecture-a philosophy focused on the free plan, roof gardens, and refined structural logic. His seminal built works extend from France to India, the United States…

That October the sixth, in the year two thousand and twenty, is the one hundred and thirty-third birthday of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret would be unremarkable except that at the age of 33 he morphed into Le Corbusier, the equivocal Olympian god of modern architecture in the 20th century. …

Basics with Jane Jacobs // 01 — I started this blog to gather my thoughts on cities and document part of my growth as an urbanist. It would be unjustified if I don’t talk about one of the precursors of the field, Jane Jacobs. “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” is circulated amongst students, even…