"Order in the details", "tumult in the whole"? : composition and fragmentation in Le Corbusier's architecture

Author

McLeod, Mary

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Fragments : architecture and the unfinished : essays presented to Robin Middleton

Author (monograph)

Bergdoll, Barry (Editor, Collective Author); Oechslin, Werner (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Fragments : architecture and the unfinished : essays presented to Robin Middleton. 2006, 291-322, 10 ill.

Publisher

Thames & Hudson, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Shows how the Abbé Laugier's call for "order in the details" and "tumult in the whole," offered Le Corbusier an aesthetic solution for an architecture of order and sensation in dialectical equilibrium, while not excluding fragmentation, displacement, or irregularity. The free plan-types in Four Compositions of the 1920s might be seen as an attempt to reconcile conflicting concepts of irregularity and geometric forms, as well as reflecting a new kind of aesthetic of spatial experience through the deployment of interior elements. Examines how Le Corbusier's "fragments" (functional objects, signs of technological progress, or abstract forms), related to his interest in the 18th-c. picturesque, Cubism, Surrealism, and Eisenstein's filmic experiments, and considers the extent to which fragmentation characterized modernism.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- France
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), 1887-1965
• Architecture
• Architectural plans [disposition d'ensemble]
• Architectural plans [documents]
• Picturesque
• Modernism
• Surrealism
• Cubism
• Irregularity
• Fragmentation
• Space
• Geometry
• Ejzenštejn, Sergej Mihajlovič, 1898-1948
• Cinematography
• Architectural theory
• France
• 1900-2000
• Laugier, Marc Antoine, 1713-1769

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- France
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), 1887-1965
• Architecture
• Plan (disposition d'ensemble)
• Plan (document)
• Pittoresque
• Modernisme
• Surréalisme
• Cubisme
• Irrégularité
• Fragmentation
• Espace
• Géométrie
• Ejzenštejn, Sergej Mihajlovič, 1898-1948
• Cinématographie
• Théorie de l'architecture
• France
• 1900-2000
• Laugier, Marc Antoine, 1713-1769

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00024228

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