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Villa Savoye. Poissy, France (1929-31) - Le Corbusier

1. Piloti - columns that raise building off ground 2. Free plan 3. Free facade - due to column structure 4. Horizontal windows 5. Roof terrace "A house is a machine for living in" - first need to consider what the house is actually for layout of ground floor has very little to do with structure ground floor - walls are curvilinear: garage incorporated in plan column grid pushed around (irregular) to make it more spatially interesting idea of architectural promenade, journey through house furniture: machine for relaxing, variation in position living room terrace on main floor

Domino House

3 floor slabs structural houses circulation between this format had not been used for housing opposite of regular building removal of heavy masonry, bearing walls windows wherever you like removal of basement and attic (unpleasant space) flat roof, roof terrace public space beneath ground floor - parking regain footprint of building

Eileen Gray

A House Under The Sun graphic novel what it meant to live in a house

Toward an Architecture (1923) Le Corbusier

new era, new spirit, new architecture "styles" are a lie, real style is a unity of principle and animates all works of an era and results from a distinctive state of mind the engineer, inspired by the law of Economy and guided by calculations, puts us in accord with universal laws. He attains harmony architect responsible for creating beauty organization of form - organization of world

Le Corbusier Charles Edouard Jeanneret 1887-1965

similarities to adolf loos

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)

studied at the Ecole de l'Uinion Centrale des Arts Decoratifs before starting her career as an interior designer designed furniture in Le Corbusier's office

E-1027 - Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France Eileen Gray

unconventional use and form architecture not only as artifact but as how its used from inside furniture and textile also designed by Eileen similar principles as corbusier - lifed off ground, terrace house is more adaptable - canvas awnings that could be retracted more attention to detail - how the house is used "a house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation."


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