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Immeuble Clarté is an
"Restauration de l'immeuble Clarté de Le Corbusier", 24 August 2007
In July 2016, the building and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
apartment building
An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), tenement ( Scots English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) ...
in Geneva
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designed by Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , ; ), was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture ...
and Pierre Jeanneret starting from 1928 and built in 1931–32. It has eight stories comprising 45 free plan units of diverse configurations and sizes. It is one of Le Corbusier's key early projects in which he explored the principles of modernist architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, or the modern movement, is an architectural architectural movement, movement and architectural style, style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco Architectu ...
in apartment buildings, which later led to the Unité d'Habitation
The ''Unité d'habitation'' (, ''Housing Unit'') is a Modern architecture, modernist residential housing Typology (urban planning and architecture), typology developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afons ...
design principle.
After it escaped demolition in the 1960s, the building was first renovated in the 1970s. After being again threatened with demolition in the early 1980s, in 1986 it was listed as a historic monument.City of Geneva"Restauration de l'immeuble Clarté de Le Corbusier", 24 August 2007
In July 2016, the building and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
References
Further reading
*Sumi, Christian: "Immeuble Clarté Genf 1932 von Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret", Zürich: gta, ETH Zürich 1989,External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Immeuble Clarte Apartment buildings Buildings and structures in Geneva Le Corbusier buildings Residential buildings in Switzerland Modernist architecture in Switzerland 1932 establishments in Switzerland Residential buildings completed in 1932