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Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Ausstellungsstrasse 60
8031 Zurich
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Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 94
8031 Zurich
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Höschgasse 8
8008 Zürich
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Le Corbusier’s buildings nearly all make use of color, but the effect is by no means the same. In the 1920s, the architect used color to shape the a priori white space and lend it specific moods. In the postwar period, concrete left in its raw state with visible traces of the formwork became the trademark of a new architectural language. The former delicate pastel shades were now replaced by the seven spectral colors demonstrated by the physicist Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century. Le Corbusier dedicated himself to the study of suitable color schemes, contrasting them with surfaces left in their natural state.
The Zurich pavilion marks the end point of this development. All that remains on the exterior are carefully grouped white, yellow, green, red, and black enameled sheet metal panels. The exposed concrete is relegated to the ramp attached at the side of the building.

Enameled sheet steel façade panels, Pavillon Le Corbusier
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Literature

Arthur Rüegg, ed., Polychromie architecturale: Color Keyboards from 1931 and 1959, Basel et al., 1997.

Image credits

Fassadenpaneele aus emailliertem Stahlblech, Pavillon Le Corbusier
Abbildung: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / ZHdK

Farbstudien zur Fassade des Pavillon Le Corbusier, Le Corbusier, 1963
Abbildung: Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Nachlass Guillermo Juan de la Fuente

Steckdose, Pavillon Le Corbusier
Abbildung: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / ZHdK

Leitungsführung (Gelb für Strom, Rot für Heisswasser, Blau für Regenwasser), Pavillon Le Corbusier
Abbildung: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / ZHdK

Atelierraum der Villa La Roche in Paris, Le Corbusier und Pierre Jeanneret, 1923–1925. Tisch und blaue Balkenleuchte von Charlotte Perriand
Abbildung: © Oliver Martin-Gambier, Fondation Le Corbusier

Wohnbereich des Appartement-Atelier im Dachgeschoss des Immeuble Molitor, Le Corbusier und Pierre Jeanneret, 1931–1934
Abbildung: © Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris