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Le Corbusier and a New Structural System as the Germ of the Modern Grammar
Author(s)
Ana María Rigotti
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2017.07.005
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National Scientific and Technical Research Council, University Center of Urban and Regional Research, National University of Rosario, Rosario 2000, Argentina
ABSTRACT
The
opposition between
the terms carcasse (carcass), conceptualized by Auguste Perret, and ossature (frame), proposed as
an alternative by
Le Corbusier, gives
rise to
the exploration of the capital contribution of the “Dom-ino” prototype
as the basic and in escapable condition for an aesthetic operation. Some issues addressed are: the importance of the
question of the structure—which remains implicit in Toward an Architecture—as key to a quest for the specificity of architecture; Le
Corbusier’s troublesome relationship with Perret and the debates between them, which convey two different ways of
understanding the
potential contributions of concrete to the redefinition of architectural vocabulary; the “Dom-ino” system considered as a new structural type in the sense ascribed to this category by Violletle Duc; the topic of the abri souverain (sovereign shelter) fit for all programs, which
triggered typological invention;
the ways in which Le Corbusier plays with Gottfried Semper’s Urformen and, finally, how this new structural type anchors Le Corbusier’s radical redefinition of the elements of the discipline, the making of a new grammar.
KEYWORDS
Structure, modern architecture, concrete, structural type, architectural vocabulary.
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