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Le Corbusier

"A machine for living in" is a concept associated with the work of

Mies-very regular, used wall as partition; Corbu-change grid and columns of the walls

Describe the difference between Mies' and Corbu's column grids?

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Draw Le Corbusier's four compositions and name the building which each is an example.

villa contemporaine

Le Corbusier first used the all-glass wall in what project?

colony passac

Le Corbusier made an abrupt swerve away from white purity of form when he designed which building?

prominade

Le Corbusier used this term to describe the spatial sequence in his buidings

Perret and Behrens

Le Corbusier worked for what two major European figures in pre-WWI Europe which had a marked influence on his career

mass produce cars

Le Corbusier's "Five Points" for a new architecture as evident in the "Citrohan" projects and the Villa Savoye, basically derived from

Greece

Le Corbusier's ideal of the "pure man-made object set in dramatic contrast to nature" was probably something he picked up in what country?

free plan, free facade, roof garden, pilotis, ribbon window

List Corbusier's Five Points of a New Architecture

family restaurant, Parison Studio

List two influences on Corbusier's interest in the two-story living space

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Sketch the car approach to the ground floor of the Villa Savoye.

False

The early work of Le Corbusier is known for its sensitive environmental response: True or False.

Corbusier

The golden section as an ordering system was best represented in the work of what architect we studied this period?

Le Corbusier

Towards an Architecture was written by

Corbusier, Gropius, Meyer

What three major architectural figures worked in Peter Behrens' office?

express columns at edge/continuous floor

What was different between Perret's concrete frames and Le Corbusier's concrete frames?

no columns, no need to exress it; no, root did it in Masonic Temple.

What was the elevational design advantage of the Dom-ino system? Was this the first realization of this advantage?

doesn't break space time continuum; doesn't break levels

Why did Le Corbusier use ramps in the interiors of his early houses?

purism

____ was the term Le Corbusier and Ozenfant chose for their painting style, which was a conscious rejection of much of what Cubism represented