French artist and illustrator Vincent Mahé has shared his most recent work with us -- a series of illustrations made for a special edition of Telerama magazine that depicts the life of the renowned Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. In just eight pages, the artist highlights the most relevant facts of this unforgettable architect's life. Expressed in green and pink tones, we can see key moments that have without a doubt shifted the course of contemporary architecture, with the extreme care and clarity that Mahé's work presents us.
View the eight illustrations after the break.
October 6th, 1887
Birth of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, son of Georges Édouard Jeanneret, a clock enameler, and Marie Charlotte Amelie Perret, a musician, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss region of Jura. Charles-Édouard started down his path at the age of 13, when he began his training as an engraver and chiseler.
1904
“One of my teachers (a remarkable teacher) saved me from a mediocre fate. He wanted to make me an architect. I was 16, I accepted the verdict and I obeyed."
The teacher referred to was 30-year-old Charles L'Eplattenier, who was recently trained at The École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and a naturalist painter of Art Nouveau.
1905
First commissioned house for master engraver Louis Faller. "Pine" style. “At 17 and a half years old I made my first house. It is a horror of my birth country and I never looked at it again"
1907
His first trip to Tuscany, to the Florence Charterhouse in Galluzo, left him awestruck: “A truly human architecture made for the joy of man (...) a monk's cell would be used admirably as a work house, being the center of the completely independent, tranquil, impressive home."
Later he went on to Budapest, Vienna, Nuremberg, Munich, Strasbourg, Paris.
