Le Corbusier

[David Morris]

Other than the walls inside being unattached to the exterior wall, I can't 
really see any connection or resemblace between the log structure described 
and Le Corbusier's "5 points" below.  But loving the work of Le Corbusier, I 
take the oppurtunity to point the P-list to a photo of his Villa Savoye, 
which beautifully displays these 5 points:

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Corbu/savoye1.jpg

http://perso.libertysurf.fr/xplemierre/accueil_architecture/lesheuresclaires/lesheuresclaires.html

http://www.chez.com/archive/maison/savoye.htm

http://www.serial-design.com/designers/villa_savoye.htm


>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>
>    "In the partial light, the immense log Structure [...]the logs are 
>still beaded with clear drops of resin, with none of the walls inside 
>attached directly to them, the building having not yet had even a season to 
>settle." (M&D, Ch. 36, p. 362)
>
>"Les 5 Points d' une architecture nouvelle, which Le
>Corbusier finally formulated in 1926 included (1) the
>pilotis elevating the mass off the ground, (2) the
>free plan, achieved through the separation of the
>load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the
>space, (3) the free facade, the corollary of the free
>plan in the vertical plane, (4) the long horizontal
>sliding window and finally (5) the roof garden,
>restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by
>the house."


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