Yahoo – AFP,
July 17, 2016
The Maison de la Culture built by Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier (AFP Photo/Philippe Desmazes) |
Paris (AFP)
- UNESCO on Sunday listed Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's works --
including the Indian city of Chandigarh which he planned in the 1950s-- among
its World Heritage Sites.
The
decision was announced as the World Heritage Committee meeting in Istanbul
resumed for a day on Sunday, after being suspended a day earlier due to an
abortive putsch bid in Turkey which claimed more than 260 lives.
The chosen
creations of Le Corbusier show his contributions to the Modern Movement that
emerged after World War I with an emphasis on functionality, bold lines and
materials such as concrete, iron and glass.
They
include 17 sites across seven countries -- France, Switzerland, Belgium,
Germany, Argentina, Japan and India -- to show the global reach of the work of
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier.
From his
modernist master-planning of Chandigarh in northern India to Paris, which he
dreamt of levelling to make way for his own more rational city, Le Corbusier
was never afraid of thinking big.
He left his
greatest mark on France, where no less than 10 of the 17 projects which UNESCO
classified as World Heritage Sites are located.
Among them
are masterpieces such as La Cite Radieuse housing project in Marseille, the
Dominican monastery of La Tourette near Lyon and La Villa Savoye near Paris.
UNESCO lists Le Corbusier's works among World Heritage Sites https://t.co/6UXnSHontt pic.twitter.com/v8rx6FDXO3— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 17, 2016
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