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The Natural Order and Architectural Autonomy: Le Corbusier’s Synthesis of the Arts

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2024, 72(), pp.52-82
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.72.0.03
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : April 12, 2024
  • Accepted : May 9, 2024
  • Published : June 30, 2024

Seung-Chol Shin 1

1강릉원주대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the meaning of Le Corbusier’s synthesis of the arts. By strengthening plasticity through the synthesis of the major arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, Le Corbusier sought to bring a sense of harmony to everyday life and reconstruct the country after World War Ⅱ. The plasticity of architecture was considered as a solution to social chaos, and the identification between aesthetic order and social reform leads to consider ‘aesthetic autonomy’ as a leitmotiv of modern architecture. The close relationship between art and life, or artistic form and social utility, was convinced, and the establishment of aesthetic order was regarded as a social practice. Leading this ‘aesthetic revolution,’ Le Corbusier sought to project the principle of nature’s form creation into art and correct the evils of the early mechanical civilization. He studied the laws of nature geometrically and tried to realize the aesthetic ideal of ‘ineffable space’ in his architecture. For him, the plasticity of architecture serves social health, and in this context, architecture was able to simultaneously achieve its aesthetic legitimacy and social function.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.