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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 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 loved the machine not for its function but for its economy of form. ... a Visual Arts Center perched on pilotis, with a wing shaped like the body of a guitar.

From the outside, the museum looks like a shoebox on stilts, which Le Corbusier called pilotis. Inside, a triangular skylight glows overhead. Concrete columns carry the structure’s weight, ...

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