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Design Concepts of Architects Charles Jencks and Le Corbusier

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architects were Le Corbusier, and Jencks. Their concepts of design can be said to have been of direct influence on many elements and in effect serve as an answer to  the question of what makes a building more than a mere structure. On occasion, history, or destiny depending on ones perspective, tends to bring certain people into the foreground of  a various field. One such larger than life personality would be that of Charles Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier(Time 100, 2002). His vision was different from all of  the art nouveau which was all curves and innuendo but went nowhere. As such, Le Corbusier stated that everything was basically old hat and that the new era demanded another  perspective and tradition to be produced. He is reported to have said, "We must start again from zero"(Time 100, 2002). INTERNATIONAL STYLE Le Corbusier among others would find that something  new and call it International Style. He seems to have taken the proclamation to reconstruct the perspective on architecture in his era because there were numerous pamphlets, exhibitions and books  on the subject, which he wrote himself. Many of them, it is reported, look very much like instruction manuals as he strove for standardization of the term International. "A house  is a machine for living in," he wrote. The machines he admired most were ocean liners, and his architecture spoke of sun and wind and the sea"(Time 100, 2002).  His particular definition of the International Style was to have a free-flowing floor plan, with the walls becoming independent from the actual function of structure. Horizontal strip windows, reminiscent of  those found on Cruise Ships were to be used, and finally, the whole structure was to have a complementing element from nature, perhaps a roof garden(Time 100, 2002). FUNCTION