Urban threshold building

Le Corbusier’s Immeuble Clarté in Geneva, 1930-1932

Authors

  • Patrizio M. Martinelli Universidad de Miami, Oxford, Estados Unidos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v5i8.106

Keywords:

threshold, façade, city, street, Le Corbusier

Abstract

This essay approaches the relationship between architecture and the city in the work of Le Corbusier; it analyzes an emblematic example carried out in 1930s: Immeuble Clarté in Geneva. On one hand, this collective building gives raise to technological experimentation (with the application of steel frame and continuous windows); on the other, it embodies the reflections on building types for the contemporary city taking as a starting point the rue corridor’s criticism. Immeuble Clarté also introduces a clear definition of the urban threshold as a place of confrontation between the dwelling and the city. In this building, which keeps together the redent and immeuble villa’s architectural and compositional principles, the entrance-door and the façade-window are in fact architectural and urban interiors that make it possible to build -by means of architecture- the place of mediation (the threshold) between the public and the private, between the building and the street in Le Corbusier’s city.

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Author Biography

Patrizio M. Martinelli, Universidad de Miami, Oxford, Estados Unidos

Arquitecto y Doctor en Composición Arquitectónica en el IUAV de Venecia, después de investigar y enseñar en Venecia y Münster, desde 2017 es Assistant Professor en la Universidad de Miami, Oxford (EE. UU.). Su investigación se refiere a la fachada como lugar e interior arquitectónico, el interior doméstico, la reutilización adaptada y la regeneración arquitectónica y urbana.

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Published

2018-07-01

How to Cite

Martinelli, P. M. (2018). Urban threshold building: Le Corbusier’s Immeuble Clarté in Geneva, 1930-1932. A&P Continuidad, 5(8), 90–105. https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v5i8.106

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 8 (2018): ARCHITECTURE AND MASTERS. REVISITING LE CORBUSIER.

Section

Thematic dossier

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