Corbusier Redux

Eyoub|Eyup. A sketch by Le Corbusier

Mavi Boncuk |

Le Corbusier, (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, was one of the greatest architects of the early 1900’. Between 1907 and 1911, he traveled to northern and central Italy, Budapest, Vienna, Lyon and Paris, Germany, the Balkans, Greece and Constantinople traveling with a backpack containing a few personal belongings and a scratch pad to sketch what architecture he saw along his journey. This Voyage d'Orient lasted for some five months. Excepts from Le Corbusier's notes appeared in the newspaper Feuille d'Avis in 1911, but his travel diary remained unpublished until 1966 as Le Voyage d'Orient (The Voyage to the East). He put his Turkish influences to one of his first buildings. For the Jewish industrialist Anatole Schwab, whose factory held the patents for Tavennes and Cyma watches, Le Corbusier completed somewhat mysterious house in 1917. The construction costs were much higher than originally estimated. By local residents the building was baptized as the "Turkish villa".
Villa Schwab / One can see in the plan arrangement the influences of "Yali/Ottoman Villas by the Bosphorus" layout .

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