Le Corbusier

Swiss-French architect and urbanist (1887–1965), a founding figure of the modern movement, author of the "Five Points of Architecture" and the dictum that a house is "a machine for living in."

Le Corbusier fused a rhetoric of industrial efficiency with a sculptor's sense of form, from the white villas of the 1920s to the béton-brut monumentality of his later work and the planned city of Chandigarh.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: contemporary (architecture). Le Corbusier and R. Buckminster Fuller shared the machine-age conviction that dwellings should be industrially produced, yet drew opposite conclusions: Le Corbusier kept architecture as a fine art of form and mass, while Fuller pursued literal mass production, minimum weight, and maximum performance, dismissing style for engineering. He is one of the modernist contemporaries against whom Fuller measured his own program.

See Also

• Frank Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright) — the other great architectural contemporary in Fuller's frame

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work anchors this figure.