Pentru un timp oficialii francezi au ncercat sa se preocupe de mizeria din mahalale Parisului.

Le
Corbusier a cutat modalitti eficiente de a crea facilitati de spatiu locativ pentru un numr mare de
oameni ca rspuns la criza locuintelor urbane. El credea c formele arhitecturale noi si moderne ar
putea oferi o solutie nou de organizare, care poate contribui la ridicarea calitatii vietii pentru clasele
de jos ale societatii. Constructiile sale Immeubles (1922) au reprezentat un astfel de proiect care a
solicitat blocuri mari, formate din apartamente individuale, puse unul peste altul, cu planuri care
includeau un living, dormitor si buctrie, precum si o teras cu grdin.

Eng. For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the
growing Parisian slums, and Le Corbusier sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in
response to the urban housing crisis. He believed that his new, modern architectural forms would
provide a new organizational solution that would raise the quality of life for the lower classes. His
Immeubles Villas (1922) was such a project that called for large blocks of cell-like individual
apartments stacked one on top of the other, with plans that included a living room, bedrooms and
kitchen, as well as a garden terrace.
Corbusier spunea: scaunele sunt arhitectura, canapelele sunt burgheze. Le Corbusier a nceput s
experimenteze un design de mobilier n 1928 dup ce a invitat-o pe arhitecta Charlotte Perriand s
se alture studioului sau. Vrul su, Pierre Jeanneret, de asemenea a colaborat la multe dintre
modelele produse. nainte de sosirea lui Perriand, Le Corbusier s-a bazat pe mobila prefabricata ca
baza la proiectele sale, cum ar fi piese simple fabricate de Thonet, compania care producea
modelele sale n anii 1930.
Eng.Corbusier said: Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. Le Corbusier began
experimenting with furniture design in 1928 after inviting the architect, Charlotte Perriand, to join
his studio. His cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, also collaborated on many of the designs. Before the arrival
of Perriand, Le Corbusier relied on ready-made furniture to furnish his projects, such as the simple
pieces manufactured by Thonet, the company that manufactured his designs in the 1930s.

n 1928, Le Corbusier i Perriand au nceput s pun in practica proiectele lor pentru mobilier Le
Corbusier, proiecte care le vor prezenta n cartea lui din anul 1925 LArt daujourdhui Dcoratif. n
carte, el a definit trei tipuri diferite de mobilier: tipul de utilitate, tipul de obiect i tipul decorativ.
Eng.In 1928, Le Corbusier and Perriand began to put the expectations for furniture Le Corbusier
outlined in his 1925 book LArt Dcoratif daujourdhui into practice. In the book he defined three
different furniture types: type-needs, type-furniture, and human-limb objects.

El a definit mobilierul ca extensie a membrelor umane, sustinand ca: Mobilierul trebuie sa fie
extensii ale membrelor noastre i adaptat la funciile umane, care sunt de tip nevoie i de tip funcii,
prin urmare mobilierul trebuie sa fie produs la nivelul membrelor corpului uman devenind un servitor
docil. Un servitor bun este discret si modest, n scopul de a-si lsa stpnul su liber. Desigur,
operele de art sunt obiecte frumoase de bun gust, manifestat prin alegere, subtilitate, proporie i
armonie .
Eng. He defined human-limb objects as: Extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions
that are type-needs and type-functions, therefore type-objects and type-furniture. The human-limb
object is a docile servant. A good servant is discreet and self-effacing in order to leave his master
free. Certainly, works of art are tools, beautiful tools. And long live the good taste manifested by
choice, subtlety, proportion, and harmony.
Bibliografie, note si citate:
Brooks, H. Allen. Le Corbusiers Formative Years: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds,
Paperback Edition, University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Curtis, William J.R. Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms, Phaidon, 1994.
Jencks, Charles. Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture, The Monacelli Press,
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