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Le Corbusier - (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) - Life and Philosophies

1887-1965 ,Swiss architect ,Urban planner ,Painter,Writer,Designer,Theorist ,Active mostly in France.

“For the first time perhaps, the pressing problems of architecture, were solved in a modern spirit. Economy, sociology, aesthetics: a new solution using new methods.”

“Through the channel of my painting I arrived at my architecture.”

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Le Corbusier’s 5 Points of a New Architecture
the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground,
the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space,

the free facade, the corollary of the free plan in the vertical plane,
the long horizontal sliding window and finally

the roof garden, restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.

Four Studies of the potentials of the 'Five Points', 1929. (a) Maison La Roche-Jeanneret, (b) Villa Stein, © Villa at Carthage, (d) Villa Savoye