Abstract
This essay approaches the relationship between architecture and the city in the
work of Le Corbusier; it analyzes an emblematic example carried out in 1930s:
Immeuble Clarté in Geneva. On one hand, this collective building gives raise to
technological experimentation (with the application of steel frame and continuous windows); on the other, it embodies the reflections on building types for the contemporary city taking as a starting point the rue corridor’s criticism. Immeuble Clarté also introduces a clear definition of the urban threshold as a place of confrontation between the dwelling and the city. In this building, which keeps together the redent and immeuble villa’s architectural and compositional principles, the entrance-door and the façade-window are in fact architectural and urban interiors that make it possible to build -by means of architecture- the place of mediation (the threshold) between the public and the private, between the building and the street in Le Corbusier’s city.
work of Le Corbusier; it analyzes an emblematic example carried out in 1930s:
Immeuble Clarté in Geneva. On one hand, this collective building gives raise to
technological experimentation (with the application of steel frame and continuous windows); on the other, it embodies the reflections on building types for the contemporary city taking as a starting point the rue corridor’s criticism. Immeuble Clarté also introduces a clear definition of the urban threshold as a place of confrontation between the dwelling and the city. In this building, which keeps together the redent and immeuble villa’s architectural and compositional principles, the entrance-door and the façade-window are in fact architectural and urban interiors that make it possible to build -by means of architecture- the place of mediation (the threshold) between the public and the private, between the building and the street in Le Corbusier’s city.
| Translated title of the contribution | The construction of the urban threshold: Le Corbusier and the Immeuble Clarté in Geneve, 1930-1932 |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 90 |
| Number of pages | 105 |
| Journal | A&P Continuidad |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |