Study on mutually-referential structure and effective history concerning sketches in the journey diaries of Le Corbusier

• Project/Area Number: 21520132
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
• Research Institution: University of Toyama
• Principal Investigator: MATSUMASA Teiji 富山大学, 芸術文化学部, 教授 (30252612)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 芸術諸学 / ル・コルビュジエ / 建築史・意匠 / 美術史 / スケッチ / ル・コルビュジェ

Research Abstract

After the analysis of the reasons why the objects of many sketches and photos left in the “journey to the East”（1911) by Le Corbusier were drawn and taken at the place and in the composition, through the practical research, it became in fact clear that his interests in the volumes, their distribution and composition, which are architecturally more essential in historical architecture and ruins in Turkey, Greece and Italy than those of his sketches before the start of this journey, had increased, that the scene which can fulfill his interests most surely, among the large possibility of places, objects and compositions, had been regarded as central theme, and that this ability to apprehend this essence is used for his later works and writings.