Designed by or influenced Le Corbusier

Connected Sites: 9

WHS connected with Le Corbusier a. Containing a building designed by him b. Visited by him and for which he did designs or which are regarded as having influenced him (with reference to his writings/drawings).

Connected Sites

  • Acropolis
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.27
    490
    14
    Visited during his 1911 "Voyage d'Orient. Influenced his concept of the "Promenade Architecturale" and the necessity of standardisation
  • Rio de Janeiro
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.62
    195
    6
    Le Corbusier visited in 1929 during a tour of several cities in the Americas by air. He was particularly taken by the new ideas gained from "aerial vision" and produced an outline design for the city which incorporated Sugar loaf/ Corcovado etc. His vision is presented from around minute 10 of this video
    See www.youtube.com
  • La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
    Inscribed: 2009
    1.93
    139
    11
    Villa Turque. Designed 1916
  • The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
    Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.73
    375
    29
  • Pompei
    Pompei
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1997
    4.38
    452
    8
    He writes of the ideas he developed from viewing the Casa del Noce "CASA DEL NOCE, at Pompeii. Again the little vestibule which frees your mind from the street. And then you are in the Atrium; four columns in the middle (four cylinders) shoot up towards the shade of the roof giving a feeling of force and a witness of brilliant methods; but at the far end is the brilliance of the garden seen through the peristyle which spreads out this light.... (Le Corbusier, 1927, p. 183)"
  • Mount Athos
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.50
    79
    8
    Said to have influenced the design for the Priory of Ste Marie de la Tourette
    See books.google.co.uk
  • Kasbah of Algiers
    Inscribed: 1992
    2.52
    56
    4
    Between 1931 and 42 Le Corbusier had a long association with Algiers and its Kasbah. His plan (never implemented) for the development of Algiers ("Plan Obus") incorporated the Kasbah, made use of some of its vernacular aspects but also intended to destroy much of it! (though he also wrote "The Casbah is nothing but an enormous stairway, a lofty gallery where thousands come each evening to worship nature")
    See www.bidoun.org
  • Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.37
    485
    12
    Visited Hagia Sophia in 1911 and later wrote about it (see link). Thought to have influenced his ideas on the importance of interior space, use of light, the cupola and of silouhettes. e.g Chandigarh?
    See books.google.co.uk
  • M'Zab Valley
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.46
    35
    5
    Le Corbusier visited in 1931 and this is credited with influencing the ideas for "La Ville Radieuse" and Ronchamp
    See www.persee.fr