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    This document provides an overview of the careers and key works of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, two pioneering modernist architects. It includes images and descriptions of some of their most famous buildings, such as Wright's Fallingwater and Jacobs House, and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation. The document also discusses influences on their early works and design philosophies, including Wright's interest in geometric forms based on nature and Le Corbusier's passion for reinforced concrete construction.

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    Frank Lloyd Wright-Le Corbusier

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    This document provides an overview of the careers and key works of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, two pioneering modernist architects. It includes images and descriptions of some of their most famous buildings, such as Wright's Fallingwater and Jacobs House, and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation. The document also discusses influences on their early works and design philosophies, including Wright's interest in geometric forms based on nature and Le Corbusier's passion for reinforced concrete construction.

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    This document provides an overview of the careers and key works of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, two pioneering modernist architects. It includes images and descriptions of some of their most famous buildings, such as Wright's Fallingwater and Jacobs House, and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation. The document also discusses influences on their early works and design philosophies, including Wright's interest in geometric forms based on nature and Le Corbusier's passion for reinforced concrete construction.

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    Frank Lloyd Wright-Le Corbusier

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    This document provides an overview of the careers and key works of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, two pioneering modernist architects. It includes images and descriptions of some of their most famous buildings, such as Wright's Fallingwater and Jacobs House, and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation. The document also discusses influences on their early works and design philosophies, including Wright's interest in geometric forms based on nature and Le Corbusier's passion for reinforced concrete construction.

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    The passage documents the works and influences of Frank Lloyd Wright, Auguste Perret, and Le Corbusier, three pioneering modern architects.

    Wright's early Prairie style homes incorporated strong horizontal lines, open floor plans, and prominence of fireplaces that influenced his later Usonian homes. His Winslow House of 1893 demonstrated these emerging principles.

    Perret pioneered the use of reinforced concrete, which he viewed as a perfect construction method. He emphasized that structures should be constructed with perfection and ornamentation should not hide imperfections.

    Frank Lloyd Wright and Le

    Corbusier
    Alan Powers
    Burnham & Root, Rookery Building, Chicago, 1885-88
    transitional structure, masonry and steel
    Louis Sullivan (Adler & Sullivan)
    Wainwright Building, St Louis, 1891
    Louis Sullivan, detail from Guaranty Building, Buffalo,
    1894
    Froebel Gifts
    Mother learned that Frederick
    Froebel taught that children should
    not be allowed to draw from casual
    appearances of Nature until they
    has first mastered the basic forms
    lying hidden beneath
    appearances. Cosmic, geometric
    elements were what should first be
    made visible to the child mind.
    Frank Lloyd Wright,
    A Testament, 1957
    Frank Lloyd Wright, W H Winslow House, River Forest,
    Illinois, 1893
    Frank Lloyd Wright, W H Winslow House, River Forest,
    Illinois, 1893 - plan
    Frank Lloyd Wright, W H Winslow House, River Forest,
    Illinois, 1893 - rear elevation
    Frank Lloyd Wright, W H Winslow House, River Forest,
    Illinois, 1893 - fireplace
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Winslow House, drawn for
    publication in the Wasmuth Portfolio, 1910-12
    The big fireplace below, inside, now became a
    place for a real fire, justified the great size of this
    chimney outside. .. The integral fireplace became
    an important part of the building itself in the houses
    I was allowed to build out there on the prairie. It
    refreshed me to see the fire burning deep in the
    masonry of the house itself.
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture, 1931
    Frank Lloyd Wright, The Larkin Building,Buffalo, NY,
    1904
    Frank Lloyd Wright, The Larkin Building,Buffalo, NY,
    1904
    Frank Lloyd Wright, The Larkin Building,Buffalo, NY,
    1904
    Frank Lloyd Wright, S. C. Johnson & Son,
    administration buidling, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936-39
    Frank Lloyd Wright, S. C. Johnson & Son,
    administration building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936-39
    Frank Lloyd Wright, S. C. Johnson & Son,
    administration building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936-39
    Frank Lloyd Wright, S. C. Johnson & Son,
    administration building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936-39
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House, Bear Run, PA
    (Falling Water), 1936
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House, Bear Run, PA
    (Falling Water), 1936
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House, Bear Run, PA
    (Falling Water), 1936
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House, Bear Run, PA
    (Falling Water), 1936
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Herbert Jacobs House, Madison,
    Wisconsin, 1936 (Usonian House)
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Herbert Jacobs House, Madison,
    Wisconsin, 1936 (Usonian House)
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Herbert Jacobs House, Madison,
    Wisconsin, 1936 (Usonian House)
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Herbert Jacobs House, Madison,
    Wisconsin, 1936 (Usonian House)
    Construction of Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, by
    members of the Taliesin Fellowship
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona,
    by members of the Taliesin Fellowship, 1938
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona,
    by members of the Taliesin Fellowship, 1938
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona,
    by members of the Taliesin Fellowship, 1938
    Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), Section of Certosa
    (Carthusian monastery) at Ema, near Florence
    Auguste Perret, 57B rue
    Franklin, Paris, 1903,
    Garage, rue Ponthieu, Paris,
    1905
    Auguste Perret had just finished the Ponthieu Garage
    and his building in the rue Franklin. He told everyone, in
    martial tones, I work in reinforced concrete. Indeed, it
    really was a battle.
    Auguste Perret also said: A construction must be
    perfect ornament hides imperfections. I became
    passionately interested in construction.
    Le Corbusier, LArt Decoratif daujourdhui, 1925
    Peter Behrens, Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1909
    Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), Maison Domino diagram,
    1914
    Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), Villa Schwob, La Chaux de
    Fonds, Switzerland, 1916
    Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), Villa Schwob, La Chaux de
    Fonds, Switzerland, 1916
    Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture, (Towards a [New] Architecture, 1923
    Le Corbusier, Maison Citrohan, 1920, model
    Le Corbusier, Immeubles Villas (villa-ats), 1922
    Le Corbusier, Contemporary City, 1922
    Le Corbusier, Contemporary City, 1922
    Le Corbusier, from Five Points of a New Architecture, 1927
    Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret, Pavillon de lEsprit Nouveau, 1925
    Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1930
    Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1930
    Le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse, Paris, 1932
    Le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse, Paris. Interior of refectory, mural by Le
    Corbusier painted in 1948
    Le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse. Student room reconstructed to original
    furnishing.
    Le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse, view down the staircase into the refectory.
    Le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse, view beneath the pilotis
    Le Corbusier & Jeanneret, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1950-56
    Le Corbusier &
    Jeanneret, Notre Dame
    du Haut, Ronchamp,
    1950-56
    Le Corbusier &
    Jeanneret, Notre
    Dame du Haut,
    Ronchamp, 1950-56
    Le Corbusier & Jeanneret, Unit dHabitation, Marseilles, 1947-52
    Certosa at Ema with
    Unit apartment
    Le Corbusier & Jeanneret, Unit dHabitation, Marseilles, 1947-52
    Le Corbusier & Jeanneret,
    Chandigargh, Punjab,
    1951-58
    Le Corbusier & Jeanneret,
    Chandigargh, Punjab,
    1951-58
    I would like architects not just students to pick up a pencil and draw
    a plant, a leaf, the spirit of a tree, the harmony of a sea shell, formations
    of clouds, the complex play of waves spreading out on a beach, so as to
    discover different expressions of an inner force. I would like their hands
    and minds to become passionately involved in this kind of intimate
    investigation. Letter from Le Corbusier to Rex Martienssen, 23
    Septmber 1936

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