Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to consider the Kansei (sensibility) of the architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965) during his journey to the east (1911) concerning ‘Window’ through the text analysis according to the viewpoint of Kansei-philosophy. At first, we analyze Le Corbusier's descriptions extracted from Voyage d'Orient carnets (Carnets as field note) and Le voyage d'Orient (Voyage as travel literature). We find that Le Corbusier describes various themes for ‘window’ concerning ‘form’, ‘material’, ‘color’, ‘light’ and ‘view’, particularly ‘light’ of the inside is common to Carnets and Voyage and ‘view’ toward the outside is described only in Voyage. As a result, we can say that, Le Corbusier's architectural Kansei (sensibility) works in the depth between the body on the inside of window and the view on the outside of window.
