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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
