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Stephen Bayley, who is the founder of the Design Museum of London and CNN journalist, has selected the Pavilion de l?Esprit Nouveau, designed by Le Corbusier, as one of the ?20 designs that defined the modern world?.
Before going on with the list, the journalist introduces the definition of design which revolves around the effect of design on human life. He says, ?Le Corbusier declared that design is ?intelligence made visible?. That?s certainly true, but intelligence can take many forms??.
Exposition Internationale des Arts decoratifs et industriels modernes (1925), Image via Wikimedia commons under license CC BY-SA 4.0
Le Corbusier had designed the pavilion for Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, back in 1925. It was designed to be only a section of a bigger project dubbed ?Plan for a Modern City of 3,000,000 Inhabitants?. The project?s design, which featured a rooftop balcony, took into account future challenges like overpopulation. He solved the problem by designing built-in pieces of furniture like closets, cupboards, and shelves to give more room for the occupants to live in. Courtesy of ADAGP, Paris 2015
Back in the day, Le Corbusier’s design was not welcomed by the organizing committee of the exposition. He had no funding or even a suitable site for the project.
The pavilion inspired Le Corbusier to highlight the five points of architecture in his ?rules of Modernism? manifes...