101 & 111 Precedence - Le Corbusier - Balance & Rhythm in Modernism

 Secretariat Building, Chandigarh

Palace of Justice, Chandigarh

 Le Corbusier was at the forefront of modernism and stylizes his work around this design movement. Modern architecture set to remove any unnecessary detail and strip a design back to its bones to highlight the notion that form follows function. Just like modern architecture, modernism in design seeks to remove any unnecessary details or intricacies. The design principals that make modernism effective in these two pieces are balance and rhythm. The balance, i believe in both designs comes from the uses of primarily vertical and horizontal lines. Rhythm is then able to play off this principal by the repetition of the many squares and rectangles created by the initial balance of the design. The way Le Corbusier has allowed these two principals of design to work harmoniously has inspired me to integrate them into my 101 copy/transform: identity work aswell as my 111 Information   
  aesthetics 3D card construction model.