Villa Savoye is broadly considered the best embodiment of Le Corbusier’s Five Points of a New Architecture (Les cinq points d’une nouvelle architecture), namely: – the use of thin columns (called ...

Today it has been restored and is open to the public. The five points of Le Corbusier are: • use of pilots: the house is raised to separate it from the earth and to use the land efficiently ...

Certified as a Historic Monument, the home and studio of famed sculptor Oscar Miestchaninoff is a work of art in its own ...

The five points were re-elaborated and even partially repudiated, and Le Corbusier worked ever increasingly with the so-called béton brut (one of the elements that was then adopted by the members of ...

while also pushing for designs that strive for social living reforms such as in Le Corbusier’s experimental works or Lacaton & Vassal’s considerate interventions. It’s this openness to the ...

commissioned in the course of what Le Corbusier referred to as ‘patient research’. It demonstrates Corbu's ‘five points’ as well as the ideas of the Ville Radieuse and Athens Charter that encapsulate ...

Explore India's architectural evolution post-independence: a blend of modernism and tradition shaping today's built ...

Comfortable, contemporary lines set apart this sofa designed by Le Corbusier for his Paris apartment, where the original model is still preserved, and that inspired the lengthy re-edition process ...

Architect, urban planner, visual artist, designer, writer. Though as famous in life as Albert Einstein, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887 – 1965), better known as Le Corbusier, was a figure very ...

Comfortable, contemporary lines set apart this sofa designed by Le Corbusier for his Paris apartment, where the original model is still preserved, and that inspired the lengthy re-edition process ...