Cubism in creative activity of Le Corbusier (Tomsk)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the early creative activity of the outstanding French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret known as Le Corbusier. His move to Paris can be explained by the increased professional and creative ambitions, spiritual maturation of the young master. The paper studies his first design works implemented in France include engineering structures, Ovriere village near Dieppe, and others.The main attention is paid to two residential mansions made in the style of Cubism, namely the Ozenfant House and Studio in Paris built in the mid-1920s. Their master plans, original solutions of facades, lightweight frames made of precast concrete are studied herein. For those years, it is a fundamentally new building material, used later in the modern residential architecture. It is noted that the creator of architectural functionalism concludes that reinforced concrete structures have a wide compositional potential that allows working not only with flat, but also with curvedlinear walls, volumetric blocks. In addition, reinforced concrete allows him to successfully test his all five principles of modern. In these works, Le Corbusier first tests residential cell technology. These works are his first approbation of conceptual models of modern architecture.