El humanismo metafísico de Le Corbusier

Abstract

This paper aims to reveal the various mechanisms of formal definition in Le Corbusier’s work that are directly sustained by the historical tools delineated by architects of the 19th century. This study will show how Le Corbusier’s concepts of ‘regulating lines’ and ‘modulor’, his processes of geometric control and modulation, and the creative development of his work, are connected to constructions as wide-ranging as Egyptian architecture and instances from Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture, as well as with project mechanisms of addition and subtraction of elements, as an approach towards the formal development of the building. En: Alexandra Trevisan, Josefina González Cubero y Pedro Vieira de Almeida, (Ed. a cargo de): Ler Le Corbusier. Ed.: CEAA/Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araujo da CESAP-ESAP. Fundación Le Corbusier. Porto, 2012. REF.: ISBN 978-972-8784-34-8. pp. 237 a 253.