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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Paris, Île-de-France, Franceen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1926 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorLe Corbusieren_US
dc.date1926en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-06T19:07:45Z
dc.date.available2013-03-06T19:07:45Z
dc.date.issued1926en_US
dc.identifier198094en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1138en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/105842
dc.descriptionGeneral side view of elevation; 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/ (accessed 1/29/2008)en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectHousingen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.titleMaison Cooken_US
dc.title.alternativeHouse for William E. Cooken_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-LC-MC-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehouseen_US
dc.contributor.displayLe Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)en_US


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