Question

Compare the social vision presented by Michael de Klerk in Eigen Haard with the vision presented by Le Corbusier in the Voisin Plan.

Answer 1

social vision presented by Michael de Klerk in Eigen Haard :- He being Dutch Architect founded Amsterdam School (Expressionist architecture) . his finest completed buildings is 'Het Schip' (The Ship) in the Amsterdam district of Spaarndammerbuurt.

Eigen Haard (Own Hearth), working-class Socialist housing, consisting of three groups of buildings:

A. Spaarndammerplantsoen, North side (1913–1915) ,

B.Spaarndammerplantsoen, South side (1915–1916)

C.'Het Schip', Zaanstraat / Oostzaanstraat / Hembrugstraat (1917–1920)

vision presented by Le Corbusier in the Voisin Plan.

Plan Voisin was a radical urban design planned redevelopment project well knwon of central Paris designed by French Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1925.This plan being frustration arising out of paris urban design .

As the prices of the land in paris were touching sky the poor parisian left for the slum town outskirt of paris city so such people from urban area relocated to suburb and bourgeois residents remained in the city . Hence the social vision of the Le corbusier come . The plan had changed the face of era most effective one .