"L'architecture est le jeu savant, correct et magnifique des volumes assemblés dans la lumière."
Elevating the building on reinforced concrete stilts, freeing the ground floor from load-bearing walls and returning land to nature and circulation.
The separation of the structural system from the floor plan. Columns replace load-bearing walls, allowing each floor to be configured freely.
Without structural function, the exterior walls become independent membranes that can be composed with full aesthetic freedom.
Horizontal bands of glazing running the full width of the building, providing uniform light distribution — impossible in load-bearing masonry.
Reclaiming the ground surface lost by the building's footprint. The flat roof becomes a garden, terrace, and solarium for inhabitants.
Across six decades and four continents, Le Corbusier built monuments to modernity — each one a manifesto of light, volume, and human proportion.
In 1948, Le Corbusier published his anthropometric scale of proportions — the Modulor. Based on the height of a man with raised arm (2.26m) and rooted in the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Section, it was conceived as a universal harmony between human scale and mathematics. Every Le Corbusier building is measured against this invisible man.
φ = 1.618 · √5 = 2.236 · h = 1.829m · h+arm = 2.260m
Le Corbusier's ideas reshaped how humanity builds, lives, and thinks about urban space. UNESCO listed 17 of his works as World Heritage Sites in 2016. His influence — for better and worse — permeates every city on earth.