Inflection Points: Connections and Transformations between Two Le Corbusier’s Journeys

Abstract

This paper evidences relationships between two Le Corbusier’s trips: the Journey to the East, 1911 (as a part of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret’s formative years) and his first visit to South America, in 1929, when he was invited to talk about his modern housing and urbanism theories in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). Besides formal similarities and differences between both situations and its material of documentation (drawings, pictures, several kind of texts – letters, journalistic chronicles and diaries), our objective is to emphasize the big changes that each one of these journeys generated in Corbusian thinking and which produced other ways to practice architecture.