![]() ![]() The most iconic implementation of these ideas was in the Villa Savoye, a pure embodiment of the Five Points. Concrete’s ability to take any shape and to be enhanced by the surfaces of various molding forms entranced Le Corbusier, and its structural promise was foundational to the formulation of his Five Points for a New Architecture: pilotis, free facades, open floor plan, ribbon windows, and roof gardens. For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-douard Jeanneret, 18871965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond 'style,' to. ![]() ![]() Often misunderstood, his famous declaration, ‘The house is a machine for living in,’ meant that the guiding principle for architects should be to make the house as well suited to its purpose as was a machine. He quickly became fascinated, however, with the remarkable adaptability of concrete, and with its sculptural and structural potential. Much of Le Corbusier’s manifesto Vers une architecture (1923) is dedicated to promoting the architectural virtues of the machine. A pun on the Latin word domus, or house, and the game of dominos, the study intended to find an affordable prefabricated system which could solve the lack of housing left by the brutal destruction of World War I. Working together with Max Dubois and Perret, in 1915 Le Corbusier developed a theoretical study for Maison Dom-ino, a structural frame of reinforced concrete. Initially, the material was enticing for sheer economic purposes – where the architect desired steel frameworks, reinforced concrete consistently proved cheaper. ![]()
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