The Decorative Arts of Yesterday

Le Corbusier´s design tactics and concepts in its purist phase

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https://doi.org/10.18830/issn.1679-0944.n33.2022.01

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Le Corbusier, Synthesis of the Arts, Total Work of Art, displacement of concepts, design method

Abstract

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, developed and presented his very particular understanding of the build environment, from the interior of the home to the metropolis, in texts, sketches, models, projects and built works. In his very characteristic formulation of the Synthesis of the Arts, Corbusier refounded and redistributed the attributes of each area, each art, each discipline: Sculpture, Painting, Architecture, among others. In the relationship between Furniture and Architecture, if there was modern, functional furniture using new technologies and industrial possibilities, in Corbusier's work architecture absorbed many of the its functions, equipping the interior and open areas, increasingly and assuming hybrid and intermediate forms, in addition to the listed types described in the architect's texts. The paper shows strategies during the 1920s, within the poetics of Purism, which he developed with his friend, the painter Amédée Ozenfant.

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Daniel Juracy Mellado Paz, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo

Possui mestrado em Arquitetura e Urbanismo pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal da Bahia - PPGAU-UFBA (2008), e doutorado em Arquitetura e Urbanismo pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal da Bahia - PPGAU-UFBA (2020). Atualmente é professor adjunto da Universidade Federal da Bahia, atuando nos seguintes temas: espaço público, arquitetura efêmera, eventos de rua, história urbana, teoria da arquitetura, arquitetura popular, Movimento Moderno, estética, obra de arte e crítica de arte.

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Published

2022-08-26

How to Cite

Paz, D. J. M. (2022). The Decorative Arts of Yesterday: Le Corbusier´s design tactics and concepts in its purist phase. Paranoá, 15(33), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.18830/issn.1679-0944.n33.2022.01

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Theory, History and Critique

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