Ville Contemporaine

The Plan Voisin was a utopian urban design of Le Corbusier, the Pavillon this 1925 the journal L' Esprit Nouvau on the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes " exhibited in Paris. Funded by the automotive and aircraft manufacturer Gabriel Voisin project provided for the area demolition of large parts of the old Paris center on the right bank and was therefore controversial.

Contemporary references

The young Le Corbusier was influenced among others by the urbanist ideas Werner Hegemann. He was impressed by the concepts of Karl Scheffler, in The architecture of the city was of 1913, the idea of ​​an organized by function city, by Peter Behrens, Le Corbusier temporarily employer who advocated high-rise buildings in the city center of Berlin.

Despite its critical after the First World War attitude towards Germany, Le Corbusier began in the 1920s apart with this thought and designed in 1922 a model of a " contemporary city ", which in turn Ludwig Hilberseimer led to the concept of his high-rise city.

The Plan Voisin and its echo

The plan Voisin Le Corbusier applied the principles of his contemporary city to the center of Paris north of the Seine. In place of the grown irregularities traditional European cities he sat 18 loose and regularly arranged 60stöckige skyscrapers with its cruciform layout. The traffic levels are separated, a wide road axle highlights the importance of individual. In his architectural radicalism and lack of consideration for the historical existence of the plan generated then as now a broad, often critical feedback. He exercised a strong influence on the urban conceptions of the 1960s and 1970s, but was rejected as a prime example of an inhumane, schematic grid architecture.