Villa Savoye is broadly considered the best embodiment of Le Corbusier’s Five Points of a New Architecture (Les cinq points d’une nouvelle architecture), namely: – the use of thin columns (called ...
From the outside, the museum looks like a shoebox on stilts, which Le Corbusier called pilotis. Inside, a triangular skylight glows overhead. Concrete columns carry the structure’s weight ...
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (1887-1965), who chose to present himself to the world with the pseudonym Le Corbusier, is undoubtedly one of ... reinforced concrete made up of beams and pillars (the ...