DesignersExample

Mr Meldrum's Example Page

This page is a rough example of the sort of thing that you might end up with as you work through the Designers Research project. I have chosen to investigate Le Corbusier.


 * Who is the designer? (When did they live? Where are they from?)
 * What do they design? (houses, bridges, kitchen gadgets, textiles)
 * Are they famous? (Charles Rennie MacIntosh was not well known until after he died)
 * What do their designs look like? (colourful or plain, curvy or straight, fun or formal)
 * Do you like their work? Tell us why!


 * Le Corbusier** was born as **Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris**, but chose to be know as Le Corbusier sometime around 1920. He was born on the 6th of October 1887 in Switzerland. He travelled a lot and eventually settled in France and became a French citizen.

He designed buildings mainly but he was also trained as an artist and designed furniture. His designs were very heavily influenced by his political beliefs. He believed that the size of a house should depend on how many people live there, not how much money the people have. At the time he was designing many of his buildings a lot of people in France were very poor and his designs aimed to solve this.

His early work was very natural looking with lots of flowers and decorative pieces. However as he grew older and he looked at the poverty in France he changed his designs so that they had less and less decoration but more and more function for the cost.

He believed that the car would have a great impact on human life and he was one of the first people to design houses and towns to accomodate them

He also believed that "The house is a machine for living in" and so he made sure that it was efficient and did not waste anything.

His buildings featured open-plan layouts, wide windows that let in light all day long,a nd gave views to open yards. The roofs often featured a garden to replace what was on the ground the house was built on.

Le Corbusier is famous among the design world, his ideas are liked by many people but disliked and even laughed at by others. He designed many things which are very famous, including Notre Dam du Haut. Despite mainly designing buildings perhaps his most famous design is a sofa. This sofa is a classic design of modern architecture.

Personally I do not like the pictures I have seen of his buildings but maybe if I were to visit them in person I would like them more. I think I would have to remember that they were designed at a time when lots of people were living in poverty and buildings had to be useful more than look good. I like how his sofa looks but I do not think it looks very comfortable. I think this so fa looks absolutely fantastic but it is not something that I would have in my house, I would rather the Barcelona chair by van der Rohe!

from Icon Interiors http://www.iconicinteriors.co.uk/corbusiersofa.shtml From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_du_Haut

I have used the following websites to find out my information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_du_Haut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Savoye http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier http://architects.greatbuildings.com/Le_Corbusier.html http://www.iconicinteriors.co.uk/corbusiersofa.shtml