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=> Villa Fallet is a house located in La Chaux-deFonds, Switzerland designed by noted architect Le
Corbusier. It was his first commission as an architect
at the age of 17. It was completed in 1905.[1] It is
recognised as a building of cultural significance in
Switzerland.[2]
1. http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheu
s.aspx?sysId=13&IrisObjectId=5422&sysLanguage=enen&itemPos=68&itemCount=78&sysParentId=64
2.Jump up^ List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland: Neuchtel

The Villa Jeanneret-Perret (also known

as Maison blanche) is the first independent project
by Swiss architect Le Corbusier.[1]Built in 1912
in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edouard
Jeanneret's hometown, it was designed for his
parents. Open to the public since 2005, the house
is under the patronage of the Swiss National
Commission for UNESCO and has been proposed by the Swiss Government for inscription
on the World Heritage List.[1]
In February 1912, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret opened his own architectural office in La Chauxde-Fonds, the city where he was born and where he began his career after completing his education
at the advanced course of the Ecole d'Art. The architect who later took the name "Le Corbusier" was
25 years old. He had distanced himself from the spirit of Art Nouveau, travelled in Europe and in the
Middle East, learned from the masters of modern architecture...The "Maison blanche" was his first
independent project and a very personal creation. Jeanneret himself lived and worked in the house
from 1912 to 1915. In 1919, the house was sold. It had many owners in the course of the century
until 2000, when it was purchased and restored by the "Association Maison blanche" which opened it
to the public in 2005.
The Villa Jeanneret-Perret is a witness to the pioneering architecture of the 20th century and the
development of Le Corbusier; his characteristic neo-classic style breaks with the regional Art
Nouveau and is based on his experience in Paris as a student of Auguste Perret and in Berlin
with Peter Behrens.

1. UNESCO: "uvre urbaine et architecturale de Le Corbusier", retrieved 12 October 2012

Villa Schwob also Villa Turque is a house

located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland designed
by noted architect Le Corbusier. [1]
The villa is built in Oriental style. It was
commissioned in 1912 and completed in 1916. He used
the Regulating Lines design principle in this building for
the first time.
1.

http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morp

heus.aspx?sysId=13&IrisObjectId=5496&sysLanguage=en-en&itemPos=74&itemSort=enen_sort_string1%20&itemCount=78&sysParentName=&sysParentId=64

Villa La Roche, also Maison La Roche, is a

house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre
Jeanneret in 19231925. It was designed for Raoul La
Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde
art. Villa La Roche now houses the Fondation Le
Corbusier.
La Roche commissioned Le Corbusier to build a
villa as well
as a gallery to
house his art collection.
Axonometric sketch of the house in its urban

La Roche-Jeanneret house, is a

context

pair of semi-

detached houses that was Corbusier's

third

commission in Paris. They are laid out at

right angles to

each other
In 1928, Le Corbusier and
collaborated on furniture, the fruits of their

Perriand
collaboration

were first done for Villa La Roche. The furniture items include, three chrome-plated tubular steel
chairs designed for two of his projects, The Maison la Roche in Paris and a pavilion for Barbara and
Henry Church.
Maison La Roche is now a museum containing about 8,000 original drawings, studies and
plans by Le Corbusier (in collaboration withPierre Jeanneret from 1922 to 1940), as well as
approximately, 450 of his paintings, 30 enamels, 200 works on paper, and a sizeable collection of
written and photographic archives. It describes itself as the world's largest collection of Le Corbusier
[1][2]

drawings, studies, and plans. .

1. Fondation Le Corbusier
2. Jump up^ Paris.org entry

Villa Savoye (French pronunciation: [savwa]) is

a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts
of Paris, France. It was designed
by Swissarchitects Le Corbusier and his
cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928
and 1931 using reinforced concrete.[3][4]
A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points" of new
architecture, the villa is representative of the bases
of modern architecture, and is one of the most easily recognizable and renowned examples of
the International style.
The house was originally built as a country retreat on behest of the Savoye family. During
WWII the Jewish Savoye family was sent to concentration camps by the Nazis who took over the
house and used it for storage.[citation needed] After being purchased by the neighbouring school it
passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition,
it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 (a rare occurrence, as Le
Corbusier was still living at the time). It was thoroughly renovated from 1985 to 1997, and under the
care of the Centre des monuments nationaux, the refurbished house is now open to visitors yearround.[5][6]
Footnotes :
1.

Ville Savoye Poissy. Centre des monuments nationaux. Retrieved January 19, 2011.

2. Jump up^ Monuments historiques ; Label XXe. Ministry of Culture. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
(French)
3. Jump up^ Villa Savoye Poissy: Tourism Industry. Centre des monuments nationaux.
Retrieved on January 19, 2011. (French)
4. Jump up to:

a b

Courland, Robert. Concrete Planet. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY. (2012)

page 326.
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a b c

Villa Savoye - A machine for living. Ultimate House. October 16, 2007. Retrieved

on January 19, 2011.

6. Jump up^ Travel review of a visit to Villa Savoye.

Immeuble Clart is an apartment

building in Geneva designed by Le
Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret starting from 1928
and built in 1931-32. It has eight stories and
comprises 45 free plan units of diverse
configurations and sizes.[1][2] It is one of Le
Corbusier's key early projects in which he explored
the principles of modernist architecture in apartment
buildings, which later led to the Unit d'Habitationdesign principle.[3]
After it escaped demolition in the 1960s, the building was first renovated in the 1970s. After
being again threatened with demolition in the early 1980s, in 1986 it was listed as a historic
monument,[2] and since 2004 it has been proposed for inscription on the World Heritage List.[4]
1.

Fondation Le Corbusier: "Immeuble Clart, Geneva, Switzerland, 1930", retrieved 12 October

2012

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a b

City of Geneva: "Restauration de l'immeuble Clart de Le Corbusier", 24 August

2007
3. Jump up^ Sherwood, Roger: "Modern Housing Prototypes", Harvard University Press, 1978
4. Jump up^ UNESCO: "uvre urbaine et architecturale de Le Corbusier", retrieved 12 October
2012