AUDREY AZOULAY WELCOMES LE CORBUSIER LSITED IN WORLD HERITAGE

USPA NEWS - Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication, welcomed the inclusion on the World Heritage List of "Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an outstanding contribution to the Modern Movement" by the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO meeting in Istanbul (Turkey) this July 17, 2016.

Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication, welcomed the inclusion on the World Heritage List of "Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an outstanding contribution to the Modern Movement" by the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO meeting in Istanbul (Turkey) this July 17, 2016.----------------------------------------------------------- This transnational candidacy, supported by France, is the result of joint work with six other countries. The Minister thanked Germany, Argentina, Belgium, India, Japan and Switzerland have collectively contributed to the inscription on the World Heritage List of those seventeen works of Le Corbusier, built on three continents. She also thanked the association sites of Le Corbusier and the Le Corbusier Foundation that brought this project for years until the World Heritage Committee. Minister welcomes all members of the World Heritage Committee and the French representatives and holders of the application Le Corbusier, who worked and defended the project in Istanbul in a particularly troubled period. The 17 works included Le Corbusier were chosen because they are a response to the fundamental issues of architecture and society of the twentieth century. These built elements were carried over half a century, throughout that Le Corbusier has indeed appointed himself a "patient search".

These sites demonstrate, for the first time in the history of architecture, the internationalization of architectural practice across the entire planet. The series component sites are all innovative in the way they reflect new concepts; all had significant influence over large geographical areas and together they are seen as having allowed the dissemination of ideas of the Modern Movement in the world. This movement has generated between 1910 and 1960, a debate of exceptional ideas worldwide and has invented a new architectural language to meet the challenges facing modern man. These monuments have always kept their functionality and continue to be inhabited, used and visited today. The recognition of the work of Le Corbusier emphasized the importance of the preservation and enhancement of the recent heritage, within a hundred years, in which the Ministry of Culture and Communication is particularly attached. The law of 7 July, on the freedom of creation, architecture and heritage has created a specific label to ensure this recent architectural heritage, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has also recently highlight.  THE 17 WORKS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SITES AND COUNTRIES-------------------------------------------------------- GERMAN -House Of the Weissenhof in Stuttgart-Seidlung ARGENTINA -House Doctor Curutchet in La Plata BELGIUM -House Guiette in Antwerp FRANCE -Cabanon Roquebrune, -Chapel Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp -Cite Frugès in Pessac radiant -Cite in Marseille-Couvent Sainte Marie de la Tourette in Evreux -House Of Culture in Firminy Molitor -Immeuble rental in Boulogne-Billancourt-Maisons La Roche and Jeanneret in Paris -Villa Savoye and gardener's lodge in Poissy - Manufacture To Saint Die des Vosges INDIA -Palais The meeting in Chandigarh (Set of three buildings of the Capitol) JAPAN- National -Museum of Fine Arts of the West in Taito-Ku SWITZERLAND -Immeuble Geneva Clarity -Small Villa on Lake Geneva, in Corseaux