[EN] The vertical " hameau" of Le Corbusier is a prototype of collective housing, developed as a plastic alternative to
“Unité d’habitation de grandeur conforme", perhaps his most synthetic work. The residential tower is ...
Colonnese, Fabio(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-03-03)
[EN] At the very end of his travel to United States, Le Corbusier conceived and designed a modern villa that he lately
inserted in the third volume of his Oeuvre Complete with the title ‘Résidence du président d’un college ...
Parra Martínez, José(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-03-03)
[EN] This paper addresses some landmarks in the evolution of the complicated relation that Le Corbusier and
L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui maintained over more than 30 years. To do so, possible reasons for the selection and ...
Mameli, Maddalena(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-03-03)
[EN] The definition of the Modulor as a set of measurements obtained through “universal” rules for composition of the
new architecture has a long and complex development, stemming from a combination of studies in architecture, ...
Fonti, Alessandro(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-03-03)
[EN] From a letter dated 1913 to W. Ritter in which he described the “erotic obsession” which had caused him to depict
the statue of the Sleeping Ariadne in the gardens of Versailles as a scantily-clad odalisque in the ...