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Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture


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Hi all, I'm new to the forum

 

I'm doing a bit of reading on Le corbusier's five points. From that I have discovered the villa savoye poissy which demonstrates each of these five points.

 

My question is, did he design any other buildings that demonstrated these points other than the villa savoye poissy? or are there any other buildings that use his five points?

 

Thank you,

 

Pete

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It's been too long since architecture school I don't know if I can remember exactly what the five points were. Let's see, use of columns... was putting the building up on piloti one of the points? Then there's free floor plan, curtain walls... ample windows? He did like his light. Was "the plan is the generator" one of them? No, that's not it, but it should have been. The last one was the incongruent point about roof gardens.

 

Savoye is the best work for seeing all five points strictly followed. That dorm for Swiss students is pretty good too. But the point on piloti takes to many possibilities off the table and he ditched it unceremoniously at some point. His later work doesn't strictly follow the points. I think he must have realized that he'd been too specific, with actual detailed instructions like "use a green roof" instead of broadly applicable theory points, and boxed himself in. My favorite Corb work, Ronchamp, violates all of the points, as if he's rebelling against his former self.

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