Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Outline Example

I. Overview of life

1. Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in Switzerland
2. Education

• La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School
• Influence of Rene Chapallaz & Charles L’Eplattenier

II. Significant Work History

1. Efficient housing in reference to French slums/overcrowding
2. Architecture or Revolution

• Contemporary city – Plan Voisin
• Urbanism – housing assigned by family size, not economic position

III. Identification of Contribution to Design

1. Five points of architecture

• Pilotis elevating the mass
• Free plan
• Free façade
• Long horizontal sliding window
• Roof garden

2. Most influential in urban planning

• Improved living conditions
• Leader of Modernist movement

IV. Acknowledgment of Historical Context

1. Modern buildings built throughout Europe, India and America
2. Improved living conditions and increased sanitation in slums

V. Images of Significant Work

1. United Nations Headquarters, New York City, 1952
2. Phillips Pavilion, Belgium, 1958
3. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts, 1961

VI. Significant Quote

1. “You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: ‘This is beautiful.’ That is Architecture. Art enters in…”

Works Cited

Jencks, Charles. “Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture”, The Monacelli Press, 2000.

Le, Corbusier, and W. Boesiger. Oeuvre Comple?te. Basel: Birkha?user, 2006. Print.

Le, Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture. New York: Dover Publications, 1986. Print

Nicholas Fox Weber, Le Corbusier: A Life, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.