Approaches to Le Corbusier's physical and sports culture in projects, works and everyday life
Authors
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Fabricio Lázaro Villaverde
Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3969-3265
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Edith Cota Castillejos
Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4492-960X
Abstract
The research is focused on approaching the presence of sport and its relationship with health in the life of a fundamental architect of the twentieth century, Le Corbusier. Although his projects aimed at sports facilities are known, this is not the case with key aspects in his personal training, for which his urban and architectural projects can be seen as a long-term line of argument in support of modern sport from different fronts and its importance in the daily life of the nascent modern cities. To this end, it is proposed to weave this approach through the relationship between physical culture, sport, architectural project and daily life. The results indicate that, although throughout his life Le Corbusier had several incursions into bodily exercise and with it, a certain relationship with amateur sports, it is important to note that from his childhood to adulthood he was accompanied by physical pre-sports activities that gradually became strategies that transition, for example, from climbing in the mountains to ramping and his presence in works and projects, with which it is possible to reveal his intention to unify the rational and emotional, Apollonian and Dionysian life implicit in modern sports practice, whether from the hobby or from professionalism.
