| Title |
Modern Dualism and Le Corbusier's Ideas |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2019.35.11.101 |
| Keywords |
Le Corbusier; modern dualism; human; nature; order; geometry |
| Abstract |
In this study, Le Corbusier’s ideas were investigated from the view point of modern dualism. Le Corbusier, pioneer of modern architecture,
insisted a rationalistic architecture for the industrial period, considering a house as ‘machine for living’. In the other way, he tried to arouse
emotions through architecture, mentioning a house as ‘machine for affecting’. In his writings and paintings, he divided the world in the two
opposed things (ex: human and nature, reason and sensation, chaos and order, orthogonal and libre curve, man and woman, sun and moon,
lightness and darkness, bull and woman, and etc), and tried to combined the these two divided things. In architecture, he amalgamated his
white buildings with the green vegetation, which is styled in the harmony of contrast(nature and articial). In urbanism, Le Corbusier did not
divide nature only into three material elements for living(sunlight, air, green space), but also pursued poetic and aesthetic nature through
buildings under the rays of sun and among the vegetation. Le Corbusier’s dualistic ideas are based on Descartes’s modern dualism, which
divided the world into the material and the spiritual and into the objective and the subjective. Due to this original division, modern dualism
contains the limits of extreme subjectification on human signification and of separation from the world and nature. Le Corbusier pursued the
combination of the two divided things to overcome the contradiction of dualism, but his ideas and works contain the limits of the modern
dualism. |