Beyond walls and altars: Shaping Spiritual Landscapes in the Modernist Chapel Potentiality, Embodied Search for Transformation, Architectural Evolution of Spiritual Space

This study examines the complex interplay of utopian vision, embodied experience, and social change within the context of modernistic religious architecture. Using Manfred Tafuri's critique of architectural utopianism (1976) and Giorgio Agamben's potentiality theory (2004) as a framework, the thesis analyzes two seminal structures: Peter Zumthor...

Modern architects and their furniture: Case studies of Alvar and Aino Aalto, Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, and their furniture designs

This thesis contains case studies of architect-duo’s Alvar and Aino Aalto, Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier, and Charles and Ray Eames, that will be used to find out why they designed furniture as architects. This will give more explanation on why an architect would or should design furniture. The thesis shows that the architects have...

Le Corbusier as a car designer: On how Le Corbusier’s architectural vision and background influenced his automotive/industrial design; The Voiture Minimum

Le Corbusier had a big influence on architecture with his modernistic approach and style. A big inspiration for him was the car and how they were mass produced and standardized, initiated by Henry Ford with the Model T. Inspiration of car design can be seen in his architectural approach and designs. This fascination led to him entering an...

Form follows harmony: An imaginary exchange of ideas between Le Corbusier and Steven Holl about the concept design of the Stretto House

In this thesis, it is being examined how music influenced the design strategy of two renowned architects: Le Corbusier and Steven Holl. The projects that are analyzed regard the Philips Pavilion in Brussels (1958) and the Stretto House in Dallas Texas (1989-1992). The design of the Philips Pavilion followed from a number of concept try-outs that...

The growing influence of the car and its effect on the ideas of the role and position of mobility in the city of the future: An architectural history thesis comparing the projects Plan Voisin, Broadacre City and Futurama by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Norman Bel Geddes

The projects: Plan Voisin, Broadacre City and Futurama, of the three architects: Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Norman Bel Geddes, are all three based upon the criticism the architects had on the design of their contemporary city’s and the mobility within these urban structures. The coming up of the automobile had consequences for the city...

Mapping the stylistic affiliations of Le Corbusier's work

The paper deals with Le Corbusier's connection to the term "style". A classification of his work in specific architectural styles is discussed, followed by a description of the procedure through which the style of the man Le Corbusier was constructed; in an attempt to search meaning in his continual stylistic shifts and the rationale that kept...

Building Beauty: Kantian aesthetics in a time of dark ecology

In the aftermath of a normalized Foucaultian world with an all encompassing web of biopower, one remaining hope is to cultivate nimbleness. Nimbleness is an embodied aesthetic sensitivity to the material presence. Cultivating nimbleness is a particular style of cultivation; it is to willfully gather together one’s self in the wake of a formative...

The Fluid Network; A new design for the United Nations Environmental Council

Graduation project for a new design for the United Nations Environmental Council in New York.

Unknown history: Le Corbusier in front of the 'Academism' of Jan de Ranitz in the preparations for the new United Nations Headquarters at New York (1946)

Baron Van Asbeck - Twee Kerken - Geïnspireerd door Le Corbusier

Gedurende de Wederopbouwperiode, na de Tweede Wereldoorlog, werden veel nieuwe woonwijken gebouwd in Nederland. De oorlog had tot een toenemend verlangen naar religie geleidt. In nieuwe wijken was dan ook vraag naar nieuwe kerkgebouwen. De Nederlandse architect Ir. J.B. baron van Asbeck heeft een belangrijke bijdrage aan deze kerkbouw geleverd....

A10 + IJ

Een vijfsterrenhotel en een goedkoop snelwegmotel op het zeeburgereiland in Amsterdam. Landgoed in de periferie. Studie naar de mogelijkheden van architectuur en ordening in het chaotische maar betoverend contrastrijke contrastrijke landschap van de stadsrand.

Raumplan versus Plan Libre: Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, 1919-1930

Stoelen

La Tourette + Le Corbusier: L'architecture du couvent et l'attitude de l'architecte: the architecture of the monastry and the architect's attitude