Les 5 Points
d' une architecture nouvelle, which Le Corbusier formulated in 1926 included (1) the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground, (2) the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space, (3) the free facade, the corollary of the free plan in the vertical plane, (4) the long horizontal sliding window and finally (5) the roof garden, restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.
A building obviously indebted to Le Corbusier's architectural tenets was Erich Mendelsohn's Columbushaus, which lasted from the Weimar days 'til 1953. Ronald Jones did an art piece in the '80s based on its floorplan. According to Jones, several of the things that made the Columbushaus "modern"--the entrance at the back that enabled residents to come and go privately, the open-plan structure--also made it invaluable to the Gestapo, who used it for interrogation and torture during WWII. That Ron, always looking for ways to suck the joy out of modernism!
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- bill 6-07-2001 7:22 pm
A building obviously indebted to Le Corbusier's architectural tenets was Erich Mendelsohn's Columbushaus, which lasted from the Weimar days 'til 1953. Ronald Jones did an art piece in the '80s based on its floorplan. According to Jones, several of the things that made the Columbushaus "modern"--the entrance at the back that enabled residents to come and go privately, the open-plan structure--also made it invaluable to the Gestapo, who used it for interrogation and torture during WWII. That Ron, always looking for ways to suck the joy out of modernism!
- tom moody 6-09-2001 6:48 am [add a comment]