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A 10 page research paper that discusses the topic of identity as demonstrated in the architecture of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn in terms of a selection of their buildings. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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two men, it is first necessary to define what is meant by "identity" within the context of architectural analysis. Identity Citing Chris Abel in Architecture and Identity, Professor Lauren
OConnell points out that "Architecture is a way of being just as science, art and the other major cultural forms are ways of being" (OConnell). Therefore, as this indicates the
topic of identity in architecture assumes that there is a "relationship between built form (architecture) and human self-awareness (identity)" (OConnell). In other words, architecture expresses the "complex and overlapping ways
in which groups define themselves" (OConnell). Considering this, the following examination of the work life and work of Le Corbusier and Kahn focuses specifically on what their architecture conveys about
their aesthetic perspective and worldview. Le Corbusier Le Corbusiers birth name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris and he was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland in 1887 (Matthews "Le Corbusier").
Charles LEplattenier, who taught at the local art school, was highly influential in Le Corbusiers education and it was this teacher who insisted that Le Corbusier should study architecture, in
addition to art, as it was Le Corbusiers ambition to become a painter ("Le Corbusier"). Le Corbusier traveled in his youth throughout Germany, as well as the East and then
studied in Paris under August Perret (Matthews "Le Corbusier"). It was during this period that Le Corbusier developed a intense interest in the idea of synthesizing various arts (Matthews "Le
Corbusier"). Some of Le Corbusiers early architectural designs were for a "series of villas," after which he focused on a "theoretical study for a structural frame of reinforced concrete,"
which Le Corbusier referred to as "Maison Domino," which is a pun derived form the Latin word for house, domus, as well as the "playing pieces from the game" ("Le
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