mill owner's association building , Ahmadabad , Gujarat , India

1. LE CORBUSIER
(1887 – 1965)
Few architects have embodied the hopes
and disillusionments of the industrial age
as Le Corbusier did.
He was one of the first professional
architects to ply his trade on several
continents at once, looming as an
internationally recognized architect.
Between the Fallet House, built in 1906-
07, and his posthumous projects, the
unremitting production spanning six
decades never ceases to amaze.
Pioneer of the modern architecture

2. Birth Name - CHARLES EDOUARD JEANNERET
Birth Place - Neuchâtel canton in north-western
Switzerland in 1897
Time period - October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965
Mother’s Name - MARIE CHARLOTTE
(occupation – Piano teacher)
Father’s Name - GEORGE EDOUARD JEANNERET
(occupation- crafts men)
Nationality – French
To distinguish his work as an architect from his work as a painter or critic and theorist, Jeanneret
took the pseudonym
LE CORBUSIER.

3. - His early education was focused on visual arts.
- At the age of 13, he left school to learn his father's trade, of engraving and enamelling of watch faces.
Here, he learned drawing and history of art by the Charles L'Eplattenier, who suggested him to become an
architect.
- In 1907-11, He took a number of trips around Europe during which he discovered the classical proportions of
Greece and those used by Andrea Palladio (1508-80).
- In 1905 at the age of seventeen he designed his first building Villa fallet on the outskirts of la chaux- de- fonds,
Switzerland
Education

4. Ground floor plan Section
Second floor plan Elevation Elevation
FALLET HOUSE
(1906-1907)
Built with the help of
architect Rene
Chapallaz
First project designed by the master

5. In 1907, he traveled to Paris, where he
worked in the office of Auguste Perret, the
French pioneer of reinforced concrete.
In 1908, he studied architecture
in Vienna with Josef Hoffmann.
Between October 1910 and March 1911,
he worked near Berlin for the renowned
architect Peter Behrens, where he
met Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter
Gropius
His ideas on building design were
influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's
Prairie Houses, the AEG works of Peter
Behrens, the concrete, glass and steel
designs of Walter Gropius.
"Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with
the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage“ -Peter Behrens
Inspiration

6. The Five Points of
Modern Architecture
The Five Points of
Modern Architecture
FIVE POINTS OF ARCHITECTURE
• RAISED STRUCTURE
• A FREE FACADE
• OPEN FLOOR PLAN
• RIBBON WINDOWS
• ROOFTOP GARDEN
“The house is a machine for living in”
THE MODULOR
• It is an anthropometric scale based on
a English man with his arm raised.
• Le Corbusier explicitly used the golden
ratio in his modular system for the
scale of architectural proportion

7. 1912 - VILLA JEANNERET-PERRET
La Caux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
1916 - VILLA SCHWOB
La Caux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
1925 - L’Esprit nouveau Pavilion
1929-1933 CITE DE REFUGE,
Paris, France
Works of Le Corbusier

8. 1928-1931 VILLA SAVOYE
France
1928-1936 CENTROSOYUS BUILDING, Moscow, Russia
1946-1952 UNITE D’HABITATION
France
1951-1955 CHURCH OF NOTRE-DAME-DU-HAUT, Ronchamp, France
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in light

9. Mills owners association, Ahmedabad.
Opened in 1951
Villa shodhan
1951-1956
Chandigarh assembly building
Completed in 1962
Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts,
Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA (1961)
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies

10. AHMEDABAD TEXTILE
MILL OWNER’S
ASSOCIATION BUILDING
(ATMA)

11. • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE – MODERN
• LOCATION – AHMEDABAD , GUJARAT , INDIA
• COMPLETION YEAR – 1954
• ALTERNATIVE NAME – ATMA BUILDING
• HISTORY :
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of the newly
independent India, ordered up a new provincial capital for the
Punjab state after Lahore was lost to Pakistan in the 1947
partition. He envisioned an entirely modern metropolis to mark
India’s entry into the modern world and a clean break from
Britain’s colonial rule.
Nehru first chose a US team led by architects and planners Albert
Mayer and Matthew Nowicki. But after Nowicki died in a plane
crash, Nehru turned to the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, a
leader in 20th-century modern architecture, who jumped at the
chance to design a city from scratch.
He was invited to Ahmedabad by mayor Chinubhai
Chimanbhai. Surottam Hutheesing, then president of Ahmedabad
Mill Owners' Association, commissioned Corbusier to build the
new headquarters of the association. It was completed in 1954.

12. • DESIGN AND PHILOSOPHY :
1. AMOA HAD PROVIDED AN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE CLOSE FAMILY TIES OF THE CITY’S LARGELY JAIN, TEXTILE
MILL OWNERS. CORBUSIER EXPRESSED THE INSTITUTION’S DUAL CHARACTER - THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE - THROUGH HIS
CONCEPT OF THE A HOUSE AS A PALACE.
2. A CEREMONIAL RAMP MAKES FOR A GRAND APPROACH INTO A TRIPLE HEIGHT ENTRACE HALL.
3. ARRIVAL IS ON THE FIRST FLOOR WHERE THE EXECUTIVES OFFICE AND BOARDROOMS ARE LOCATED.
4. THE GROUND FLOOR HOUSES THE WORK SPACES OF THE CLERKS AND A SEPARATE SINGLE STOREY CANTEEN.

13. 5. ON THE THIRD FLOOR , IS A HIGH TOP LIT AUDITORIUM WITH A ROOF CANOPY AND A CURVED ENCLOSING WALL .
6. THE EAST- WEST FACADES ARE IN THE FORM OF BRISE-SOLEIL , WHICH AVOIDS THE HARSH SUN AND ALLOWS THE
FLOW OF WIND AND VISUAL CONNECTION TO THE OUTER ENVIRONMENT.
7. WHILE BRISE-SOLEIL ACT AS FREE FACADES MADE OF ROUGH SHUTTERED CONCRETE, THE NORTH-SOUTH FACADES
ARE BUILT IN ROUGH BRICKWORK, ALMOST UNBROCKEN.
8. ON THE SECOND FLOOR, THE LOBBY IS TREATED AS OPEN SPACES AND THE AUDITORIUM AS AN ENCLOSED SPACE
FORMED BY SOFT, CURVILINEAR FORMS.

14. • Creation of a eccentric linear axis through ramp in connection with
the square symmetrical plan.
• Manipulation of spaces through height differences e.g. Triple height
at the entrance hall.
• Use of sun breakers or brise-soleil to obstruct direct sunlight at the
same time take in ample amount of reflected light. This maintained
the visual transparency and also permitted good air circulation.

15. • The entire building is of exposed concrete with some elements in wood and steel painted in bright
colors to add contrast.
• Use of free standing curved walls and staircases to loosely define spaces.
• This building creates an example in modern architecture and also teaches that a building is much
more than its façade rather articulation of spaces is a greater challenge for an architect.
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16. ATMA BUILDING
AHMEDABAD , GUJARAT , INDIA