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Le Corbusier’s architectural work has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Altogether 17 sites in a “transnational serial property” of seven countries were chosen, all associated with the Swiss-French architect who was born Edouard Jeanneret.
Among the sites: the Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh, India; the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan; the House of Dr Curutchet in La Plata, Argentina; the Unité d’habitation in Marseille, France; and two contributions Le Corbusier made to Mies van der Rohe’s Weissenhof estate in the German city of Stuttgart, created in 1927 as an international survey of modern architecture.
Le Corbusier’s buildings “reflect the solutions that the Modern Movement sought to apply during the 20th century to the challenges of inventing new architectural techniques to respond to the needs of society,” the World Heritage Committee explained in a press release, adding that “these masterpieces of creative genius also attest to the internationalization of architectural practice across the planet.”
The decision was made during the World Heritage Committee’s 40th session in Istanbul, Turkey, which was interrupted during the weekend by the failed military coup against Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and will be continued at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, according to the German UNESCO Commission.
In total, the World Heritage Committee inscribed 21 sites in its World Heritage List this year, including the Antigua Naval Dockyard and related archaeological sites in Antigua and Barbuda; Oscar Niemeyer’s Pampulha Modern Ensemble in Brazil; the Khangchendzonga National Park in India; and the Archipiélgo de Revillagigedo in Mexico.
The 41st session of the World Heritage Committee will take place in July 2017 in the Polish city of Kraków.
