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Heidi Weber Museum
Le Corbusier | |
| location | Zurich |
| function | museum |
| contributed by | Joao_Morgado |
The Heidi Weber Museum reflects the harmonic unity of Le Corbusier's architecture, sculptures, paintings, furniture designs and his writings which is unique and possibly the only one such existing structure in the world: a total work of art. Located on the wooded shores of Lake Zurich, the last building designed by Le Corbusier, synthesizes Corbusier's genius. Yet it marks a radical change of his achievement of using concrete and stone so poetically. He to put in practice the construction system based on cubic units of 2.26 meters each side, created according to the Modulor measures. He framed his final masterpiece in steel and glass and thus created a signpost for the future. Le Corbusier made great use of prefabricated steel elements together with multi-coloured enamelled plates fitted to the central core, and above the complex he designed a 'free-floating' roof to keep the house protected from both the rain and the sun. (text by Arch Leonardo Noguez)
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London sept-2009
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