{"id":8235,"date":"2022-02-15T15:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T09:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icdlabs.in\/sf\/?p=8235"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T09:34:02","slug":"immerse-education-essay-winner-gurzahn-singh-virdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icdlabs.in\/sf\/immerse-education-essay-winner-gurzahn-singh-virdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Immerse Education Essay Winner – Gurzahn Singh Virdi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gurzahn Singh Virdi, a student of Grade 8, has won a scholarship of 20% to take part in summer programs at Oxford, Cambridge and LSE through the Immerse Education Essay Competition 2022.<\/p>

The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides students aged between 13 and 18 with the opportunity to submit essays related to their chosen subject. Gurzahn wrote an essay on his favourite architect. He did a wonderful job of capturing the essence of Le Corbusier and his legacy.<\/p>

Gurzahn\u2019s words depicted Corbusier\u2019s work in a manner which made his essay stand out from the others. We are proud of your achievement, Gurzahn. Best of luck for all future endeavours!<\/p>

\u00a0<\/p>

Who is your favourite architect?<\/p>

My favourite architect is Le Corbusier and I am fortunate to have been born and brought up in Chandigarh, a great city planned and designed by him. Among the twentieth century\u2019s great architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn and Antoni Gaud\u00ed , Le Corbusier is, indeed, the greatest, in my considered opinion. An indefatigable many-splendoured genius, his creativity was as prodigious as it was versatile. Had he so desired he would have been as great a painter as Picasso or as great a sculptor as Henry Moore, but he chose architecture and revolutionized it throughout the world (Bhatti , 2020).<\/p>

Born on October 6,1887 as Charles -\u00c9douard Jeanneret ,he was a Swiss -French architect. Le Corbusier\u2019s\u00a0 theory of architecture was multifaceted. In his book\u00a0 Vers Une Architecture<\/em>\u00a0 he says, \u201cArchitecture is a thing of art, a phenomenon of the emotions, lying outside questions of construction and beyond them. The purpose of construction is to make things hold together; of architecture to move us. Architectural emotion exists when the work rings within us in tune with a universe whose laws we obey, recognise and respect\u201d (Le Corbusier,1923). In the course of his work as an architect, Le Corbusier developed a series of architectural principles, which he used as the basis of his designs. The five points included Pilotis (columns), roof garden, free plan, free fa\u00e7ade and ribbon windows. In 1918 , with the help of the artist Am\u00e9d\u00e9e Ozenfant, Le Corbusier adopted\u00a0 painting with the use of oils. Together they developed the Purism movement and\u00a0 collaborated on the book Apr\u00e8s Le Cubisme<\/em>. Alongside poet Paul Derm\u00e9e, he founded the magazine L\u2019Esprit Nouveau<\/em> with its main subject matter being the arguable relation between art and industrial society (Choay, 2021).<\/p>

Thus he was a gifted architect, provocative writer, divisive town planner ,talented painter and unparalleled polemicist (Rory,2019). His career spanned five decades and he designed buildings throughout the world especially in Europe, Japan, India, North and South America. He was a founding member of the Congr\u00e8s Internationaux d\u2019 Architecture Moderne<\/em> (CIAM). It is due to his remarkable designs that many scholars consider him as the father of modern architecture.<\/p>

Le Corbusier declared: \u201cTown Planning expresses the life of an era. Architecture reveals its spirit.\u201d Through a town plan he sought to combine a new order with economy, health, rationality and clarity\u2014so that Sun, Space, and Verdure could become the prized heritage of every citizen. In championing such a significant cause of the humankind, Le Corbusier went far beyond his \u201cMastery of Form\u201d to become the twentieth century\u2019s most versatile creative artist since the advent of the Quattro-cento Masters of the Italian Renaissance.<\/p>

The crowning feature of his truly exceptional diversity of interests, insights and skills was his abiding concern for the human condition, which eventually led him \u201cto rediscover man who had become lost in the frenetic development of technique.\u201d He has left an unparalleled legacy of more than 32,000 architectural and urbanistic drawings and plans, 400 projects, some 300 paintings, more than 7000 drawings, illustrated books, lithographs, engravings, works in enamel, tapestries and furniture (Bhatti,2020) .His work continues to be studied, criticized and reinterpreted today , gaining new meanings and influencing generations to come ( Catarina,2017).<\/p>

BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/p>

Bhatti S.S. \u201cThe Unforgettable Corbusier \u201d, Surfaces Reporter , 5 October 2020,<\/p>

https:\/\/www.surfacesreporter.com<\/a><\/p>

Catarina Flaksman, Peter Clericuzio. \u201cLe Corbusier: Artist Overview and Analysis\u201d. [Internet]. TheArtStory.org,17 April2017,<\/p>

https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/artist\/le-corbusier\/<\/a><\/p>

Choay, Fran\u00e7oise. \u201cLe Corbusier\u201dEncyclopedia Britannica, 23 Dec. 2021, https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Le-Corbusier<\/a><\/p>

Le Corbusier.\u201dTowards a New Architecture\u201d Dover Publications,Inc., New York, 1986 ,<\/p>

Reprint .Originally published:London:J.Rodker,1931<\/p>

Rebecca Bates.\u201d Le Corbusier\u2019s Most Significant Projects\u201d Architectural Digest,September 30,2014.<\/p>

https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com<\/a><\/p>

Rory Stott .\u201dSpotlight : Le Corbusier\u201d Architecture News,ArchDaily,6 October2019,<\/p>

https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/434972\/happy-birthday-le-corbusier-2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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