Today we showed the booklets we made for studio (I'll attach pictures at the bottom). I'm really happy how mine came out, and that no one else had the same idea as me. The booklet I made was simple, 6 pages. What I really wanted to show about the Maison Curutchet was the tree, the open spaces, open to below, and how Le Corbusier connected the house to the tree, he used wooden tiles for the flooring, wooden handrails and trim. He had a few splashes of color in the trim to some windows, but other than that, the rest was kept white.
I found a quote that I think best describes the Maison Curutchet.
"It is one of the mist beautiful, specially dramatic and poetic houses designed by Le Corbusier" - Alejandro Lapunzina
The reason I think the Masion Curutchet isn't that well known is because in less then a decade after it was completed it was abandoned. Le Corbusier recommended the local architect Amancio Williams to build the home. He started the job and tried to keep it as original to the plans as possible. Sometime during the construction process something happened and he left the job, and Simon Ungar took over. He was a local contractor, and he changed a lot of things on the project, without consent of Dr. Curutchet. Some of the things he changed were the wall heights, Dr. Curutchet hated the finished project, and was the reason he abandoned it. Another reason, I think, is because all the main characters of the home have died. Dr. Curutchet died in 1992, Amancio Williams died 1989, and Le Corbusier died in 1965.
In 1988 the Maison Curutchet was fully restored and declared a National Monument and Dr. Curutchet's family still owns the building, but no one lives in it, and people are welcome to visit and walk though, even though it's empty.
Model
Booklet
Drawings
First Floor
Second Floor
Third Floor
Fourth Floor
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