![]() ![]() The influence of these design points can be seen incorporated in the works of other architects Mies van der Rohe, Philp Johnson, and many current architectural designs still today. This functional vision for residential design was as he called it “a machine for living in”. ![]() The new modular design system allowed for an “infinite number of combinations of plans”. These five points would dictate his architectural design style for the rest of his career and the careers of many other architects. Who is Le Corbusier Known as Le Corbusier, Charles Edouard Jeanneret was an urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer and furniture designer. Written in 1927, Le Corbusier’s Cinq Points de l’Architecture Moderne or The Five Points of a New Architecture may have been the basis of the architectural design concept behind one of his most famous works, Villa Savoy (1929-1931). The book Towards a New Architecture was written by Le Corbusier who is the founder of modernist architecture in 1923. Corbu’s faith in technology and heavy industry helped create what many would later call “the machine age”. His early writings and buildings glorified modernism and praised modernity as the key to recovery from World War I. Perhaps the most influential architect of the 20th century, Le Corbusier not only shaped modern architecture but helped to define modernity and the International Style. ![]()
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