L8: Le Corbusier - modern architecture and the modern city.

Maison Stein

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: garches 1927

Dom-ino House Project

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: 1914 Significance: Domino house system explored through concrete framing - 3 horizontal concrete flab's with columns supporting these slabs set back from the perimeter. Dominant house system explored further through 1920s, becoming more abstract in their composition, the formula or a system for the modern building. A representation of what he begins to develop his 5 points of architecture.

Citrohan Projects

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: 1920 Significance: creating a space not only efficient but affordable to be mass produced.

Ville Contemporaine

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: 1922 (contemporary city) Significance: Widely spaced regular grid, residential blocks 10-12 storeys high and surrounding suburbs. Centre is management, surrounding is housing workers. Some of the housing maintained traditional street patterns. central cross axis.

Plan Voisin (a plan for the reconstruction of Paris)

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: 1925 Significance: Large skyscapers cross form again, lower housing blocks. To the right of the screen the footprint of the louvre, demonstrating to replace a large area of central Paris.

Ville Radieuse (Radiant City)

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: 1930-34 Significance: Adapted and reloooked at to be extednded indefinitely. Residential blocks took up a zig zag lat out (ridon layout). Cross form skyscrapers reappreed at the top of the plan, as the industrial areas expand linearly to the right and to the left.

Ozenfant House

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: Paris 1922 Significance: minimal housing type, both a house and a studio for his friend ozenfant. A sense of geometric clarity. Factory windows, furnished with off the shelf furniture, roofing unique, - industrial appearance overall.

Maison La Roche

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: Paris 1923 Significance: Now house the Le Corbusier foundation. Factory windows again.

Villa Savoye

Architect: Le Corbusier Context: Poissy, 1928-31 Significance: follows the 5 points of architecture, although it can be compared to the 16th century villas of paladio, it has some commonness with the plan of the villa rotanda, it has a great deal of diamonism. Aesthically so as a machine. Built substantially of plaster brick work.