The architectural work of Le Corbusier (World Heritage)

The architectural work of Le Corbusier - an outstanding contribution to the "Modern Movement"
UNESCO world heritage
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp
National territory:	Argentina Belgium Germany France India Japan Switzerland
Type:	Culture
Criteria :	(i) (ii) (vi)
Surface:	98.4838 ha
Buffer zone:	1,409.384 hectares
Reference No .:	1321
UNESCO region :	transregional
History of enrollment
Enrollment:	2016  ( session 40 )

Under the title The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier - an Outstanding Contribution to the “Modern Movement” , UNESCO has combined outstanding works by the Swiss-French architect and urban planner Le Corbusier into a transnational , serial world cultural heritage . The 17 selected objects exemplify the development of the new architectural language of expression of modernism during the 20th century. The works were created over a period of half a century, in a phase that Le Corbusier called "patient research" (patient search or patient research) and are spread over seven countries on three continents. With ten individual properties, the focus is on France , with a further four properties in Europe, including two in Switzerland and one each in Belgium and Germany ; outside Europe, Argentina , India and Japan each have one site. It was inscribed on the World Heritage List at the 40th meeting of the World Heritage Committee on June 17, 2016.

Development up to enrollment

In January 2008 France entered fourteen buildings and facilities by Le Corbusier on the French tentative list for the registration of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO . This is a prerequisite for a process for recognition as a World Heritage site. Other UNESCO member states joined in: Nine works by Le Corbusier from six other countries were nominated as candidates for inclusion in the world cultural heritage under the title The urbanistic and architectural work of Le Corbusier ( French Œuvre urbaine et architecturale de Le Corbusier ). The list included structures and facilities from Argentina, Belgium, Germany, France, India, Japan and Switzerland.

In 2009 the World Heritage Committee decided to postpone the treatment and recommended a revision by 2012. The reasoning should be improved both for the choice of buildings and for Le Corbusier's influence on architecture and urban planning in the 20th century. Accordingly, a new application was submitted in January 2011 with only nineteen structures and facilities left. Of the four objects that were deleted, two were in France and two in Switzerland. But even this candidacy did not find a majority in the committee. The reason for the rejection said, among other things, that it had not yet been proven that Le Corbusier's work actually had outstanding global importance.

However, at the 40th meeting of the World Heritage Committee on June 17, 2016, it was entered on the World Heritage List. The world heritage site includes 17 excellent buildings by Le Corbusier. These include two houses in the Stuttgart Weißenhofsiedlung in Germany, the “ Clarté ” apartment building in Geneva and the “ Villa Le Lac ”, also known as “Petite Maison”, in Corseaux ( Canton Vaud ) in Switzerland .

List of individual sites

Ref.No. 1321-	image	Surname	Place, region, country
001		Maisons La Roche and Jeanneret ( Location )	Paris , Île-de-France , France
002		Villa Le Lac on Lake Geneva ( Location )	Corseaux , Canton of Vaud , Switzerland
003		Cité Frugès ( Location )	Pessac , Aquitaine , France
004		Maison Guiette ( Location )	Antwerp , Flanders , Belgium
005		Houses in the Weißenhofsiedlung ( Location )	Stuttgart , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
006		Villa Savoye et loge du jardinier ( Location )	Poissy , Île-de-France , France
007		Immeuble Clarté ( Location )	Geneva , Canton of Geneva , Switzerland
008		Immeuble locatif à la Porte Molitor ( Location )	Boulogne-Billancourt , Île-de-France , France
009		Unité d'habitation de Marseille ( Location )	Marseille , Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur , France
010		Manufacture à Saint-Dié ( Location )	Saint-Dié-des-Vosges , Lorraine , France
011		Casa Curutchet ( Location )	La Plata , Buenos Aires Province , Argentina
012		Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut ( Location )	Ronchamp , Franche-Comte , France
013		Cabanon de Le Corbusier ( Location )	Roquebrune-Cap-Martin , Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur , France
014		Complexe du Capitole ( Location )	Chandigarh , Punjab and Haryana , India
015		Monastery Sainte-Marie de la Tourette ( Location )	Éveux , Rhône-Alpes , France
016		National Museum of Western Art ( Location )	Taitō , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
017		Maison de la Culture de Firminy ( Location )	Firminy , Rhône-Alpes , France

Web links

• Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
• L'Œuvre architecturale de Le Corbusier. (PDF, 436 MB) WHC, January 2015, accessed on May 25, 2017 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ English The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement , French L'Œuvre architecturale de Le Corbusier, une contribution exceptionnelle au Mouvement Moderne , German translation according to the World Heritage List. In: Unesco.de. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on May 27, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Le Corbusier entry in the UNESCO tentative list: L'œuvre architecturale et urbaine de Le Corbusier. In: whc.unesco.org. January 31, 2006, accessed May 14, 2015 (French).
3. ↑ UNESCO dossier Le Corbusier signed in Paris. In: Swiss Federal Office for Culture , January 30, 2008, accessed on April 7, 2014 (press release).
4. ↑ Decision: 33 COM 8B.19. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 27, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Amber Sayah: Partial success with Le Corbusier. ( Memento from February 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , June 30, 2009.
6. ↑ Félix Gatier: Le Corbusier fait son chemin vers l'Unesco. In: Liberation , February 12, 2011.
7. ↑ The Corbusier plant is not a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In: Blick .ch , June 28, 2011.
8. ↑ Le Corbusier's architectural work. ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Swiss Federal Office for Culture (BAK), as of December 1, 2013, accessed on April 9, 2014 (press release). There are also further dossiers on the procedure and the various objects. 
9. ↑ Decision: 35 COM 8B.40. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 27, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Decision: 40 COM 8B.31. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 27, 2017 . 
11. ^ UNESCO World Heritage Center: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement. Maps. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved May 27, 2017 (English). 
12. ↑ Unesco: Stuttgart Corbusier houses named world cultural heritage. spiegel.de, July 17, 2016, accessed on July 17, 2016.

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