Le Corbusier then designed three houses for the Americans William E. Cook, Michael and Sarah Stein, and Henry and Barbara Church, all of whom knew each other through Gertrude Stein. The house for Cook (1926), Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris, marks the beginning of the codification of Le Corbusier's style. The ribbon windows and pilotis used in the Villa La Roche were now parts of a standard solution. The piloti, which had emerged there by accident, was made the focus of the design, starting from the centre of the ground-floor car parking space and rising up through the house. The notion of the free plan is accentuated with clever use of curving walls and double-height spaces to show how independent the form is of the structure. A Purist colour scheme was used internally to brilliant effect, and a roof garden formed the transition from interior to exterior space. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
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Le Corbusier then designed three houses for the Americans William E. Cook, Michael and Sarah Stein, and Henry and Barbara Church, all of whom knew each other through Gertrude Stein. The house for Cook (1926), Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris, marks the beginning of the codification of Le Corbusier's style. The ribbon windows and pilotis used in the Villa La Roche were now parts of a standard solution. The piloti, which had emerged there by accident, was made the focus of the design, starting from the centre of the ground-floor car parking space and rising up through the house. The notion of the free plan is accentuated with clever use of curving walls and double-height spaces to show how independent the form is of the structure. A Purist colour scheme was used internally to brilliant effect, and a roof garden formed the transition from interior to exterior space. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
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