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

Concrete pilotis, or columns, lift it from the ground, recalling one of the Imperial Walkers from “The Empire Strikes Back.” Designed in 1953, it’s blatantly futuristic, even now.

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 ...

Among architects, the Villa Savoye is one of the most famous houses in the world, an icon known to anyone who ever sat through lectures on modernism. Designed by the Swiss-born Le Corbusier in ...

The living quarters for the owners are on the second floor, which is raised on “pilotis”–Le Corbusier’s term for columns. To reach the front door, the owners’ chauffeur drove under the ...

Le Corbusier, the modernist architecture master, defined the 20th century, leaving a lasting mark and legacy in his field; read our ultimate guide to Le Corb.

As Le Corbusier said in his own royal way: “Le Corbusier has kept the instinct of the prophetic, indispensable, practical and beneficent relations between the hand and the head.” Sunny Cambridge?

It was Le Corbusier. Léger later had good cause to recall this first meeting with the angular man in black, who died last week of a heart attack at 77.

From the outside, the museum looks like a shoebox on stilts, which Le Corbusier called pilotis. Inside, a triangular skylight glows overhead.

Le Corbusier and Jeanneret, like all other architects involved, were given schematic guidelines for the location, size, budget and program for each house. The Paris-based architects, who were busy ...