Concrete pilotis, or columns, lift it from the ground, ... This summer, 17 of Le Corbusier’s architectural works scattered from Japan to Brazil were inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List.

The pilotis on the ground floor are sacrificed to make space for two workshops and a garage, ... is the culmination of Le Corbusier’s Five Points begun at the Villa Ozenfant in 1922, ...

To even the most casual observer, Le Corbusier has become a household name. His lifetime achievements in brutalist architecture, city planning, and pilotis represent his tireless search for ...

Le Corbusier - real name Charles-Édouard Jeanneret - was a key proponent of Modernism, ... Raise the building on “pilotis,” freeing the walls of their structural function.

Le Corbusier wrote, if not 'the', then 'a' rulebook for modernism – quite literally, as his groundbreaking 1923 book Towards a New Architecture famously outlined his 'five points of architecture', ...

Le Corbusier's Dominican monastery in France is one of his most important works and one of 17 buildings by him ... The building is raised on pilotis – a recurring characteristic in Le Corbusier ...

Le Corbusier declared that the past was his only real master but he transformed it in unexpected ways. Metamorphosis was central to his way of seeing, thinking and inventing. Le Corbusier died in 1965 ...

Le Corbusier envisioned the ramp as becoming a major campus pathway, ... The pilotis vary in diameter throughout the building, depending on the load they are forced to carry, ...

Le Corbusier has left an invaluable legacy with his life’s work, throwing out convention and ushering in a new era of modern ...