35413 The Plan Voisin was a planned redevelopment of Paris designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1925. The redevelopment was planned to replace...
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Besides the furniture, the pavilion exhibited a model of his 'Plan Voisin', his provocative plan for rebuilding a large part of the centre of Paris. He proposed...
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Catherine Monvoisin, or Montvoisin, née Deshayes, known as "La Voisin" (c. 1640 – 22 February 1680), was a French fortune teller, commissioned poisoner...
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industrial models to re-organise society. In 1925, Le Corbusier exhibited his Plan Voisin, in which he proposed to bulldoze most of central Paris north of the...
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approach was based on defining the house as 'a machine to live in'. The Plan Voisin he devised for Paris, which was never fulfilled, would have involved...
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park-like environments was very similar to Le Corbusier's ideas for Paris (Plan Voisin). Jokinen's preference for the car resembled the way Robert Moses attempted...
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Towers in the park (category Urban studies and planning terminology)
street. It is based on an ideology popularised by Le Corbusier with the Plan Voisin, an expansion of the Garden city movement aimed at reducing the problem...
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Shanghai Plan (1929) Haussmann's renovation of Paris (1853) Plan Voisin (1925) Hobrecht-Plan (1862) Germania (1938) Pabst Plan (1940) Nordstern (1941) Plan Zuid...
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realise his dreams of utopia represented in the Ville Contemporaine and Plan Voisin (1925). Influenced by the linear city ideas of Arturo Soria y Mata (which...
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The Voisin VIII was a French two-seat biplane pusher which was built in two versions, one fitted with a 37mm Hotchkiss cannon (the LBP or Ca.2), and the...
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