- Villa Jeanneret-Perret
= History =
In February 1912, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret opened his own architectural office in
La Chaux-de-Fonds , the city where he was born and where he began his career after completing his education at the advanced course of the Ecole d'Art. The architect who later took the name "Le Corbusier" was 25 years old. He had distanced himself from the spirit ofArt Nouveau , traveled in Europe and in the Middle East, learned from the masters of modern architecture...The "Maison blanche" was his first independent project and a very personal creation. Jeanneret himself lived and worked in the house from 1912 to 1915. In 1919, the house was sold. It had many owners in the course of the century until 2000, when it was purchased and restored by the "Association Maison blanche" which opened it to the public in 2005.Architecture
The Villa Jeanneret-Perret is a witness to the pioneering architecture of the 20th century and the development of
Le Corbusier ; his characteristic neo-classic style breaks with the regional Art Nouveau and is based on his experience in Paris as a student ofAuguste Perret and in Berlin withPeter Behrens .External links
* [http://www.maisonblanche.ch Official website]
Bibliography
*"Maison blanche, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret/Le Corbusier", ed. Karl Spechenhauser and Arthur Ruegg, Association Maison blanche/Birkhaüser, 2007
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