Abstract
The redent is the only generic building of Le Corbusier’s to endure and be transformed over the years between the initial and last designs, while others (immeubles-villas, gratteciel cartésien cruciforme, etc) disappeared altogether and still others arose during his lifespan (Unités, gratteciel «patte de poule» or “y”, etc). The residential redents’s obsessive presence can be attributed to its versatility in composition given that it is both open and closed at the same time. While the open form pools from French military architecture, the French garden, and social reformism, the closed form is highly attributed to Sitte’s tradition. To discover its phy- logeny rather than its achievements, all one needs to do is go back in time from the stale mechanism used in Hauptstadt-Berlin to the incipient form that was inoculated based on Fröbel’s teaching system of learning through play.
Highlights
When Le Corbusier tackled the job of giving shape to modern cities with the aim of graphically enunciating universal, abstract, generic principles, operationally speaking, he established certain initial assumptions or a priori whose roots were steeped in the past
The redent is the only generic building of Le Corbusier’s to endure and be transformed over the years between the initial and last designs, while others disappeared altogether and still others arose during his lifespan (Unités, gratteciel «patte de poule» or “y”, etc)
Continuity versus fragmentation in residential redents If Berlin was a compendium it is because in the 1940s Le Corbusier took stock of the architectural forms that had been created over time
Summary
When Le Corbusier tackled the job of giving shape to modern cities with the aim of graphically enunciating universal, abstract, generic principles, operationally speaking, he established certain initial assumptions or a priori whose roots were steeped in the past. In one of Berlin’s most regular areas, he put forward an organization whose main residential woof was primarily composed of allotments with redents, that is to say, portions of space that included pairs of buildings set out linearly with orthogonal folds in a Greek pattern, and this constituted one of the design’s generic buildings.
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