The Free Plans of Le Corbusier's Architecture [Villa Savoye]

In this video, we take a close look at the Free Plans of Le Corbusier's architectural design strategies. As part of his 'Five Points' of architecture, we examine how the columns and walls work together in this particular type of "open concept." Le Corbusier's buildings like the Villa Savoye help to illustrate these concepts as we compare them to the 'Organic Architecture' of Frank Lloyd Wright. Specifically, the ribbon window is compared to the corner window of Wright and Le Corbusier's 'Promenade Architectural' to the diagonal movement of organic architecture.
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[@invencibletheory]

I remember trying to model this villa from drawings and being irritated by the erratic column grid! We're trained to never have a sloppy column grid when we're in school! Yet the amazing Villa Savoye does just that!

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[@adityawaglearch]

Nice vdo..well explained..The ribbon windows cutting off the top and bottom view to project and emphasise horizontal view are also seen employed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Fallingwater Kaufman House 1937-39.

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[@stewarthicks]

Wow, thank you for saying that! I'm glad they help in their own way.

[@adam-farooq]

This video breaks down Open Concept very clearly for all to understand. I would say the most clear video on youtube on the subject. P.S. congrats on the number of views that are increasing, I hope your video popularity skyrockets!

[@stewarthicks]

Thank you so much Adam. I appreciate the feedback and kind words!

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[@caseyahlbrandt-rains103]

I sure do love beautiful slender columns!

[@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944]

I just discovered your videos. Fascinating! I would be interested on your take regarding the maintenance of these modernist buildings. I note, with interest, that the video of the Villa Savoye you use shows it before recent restorations. The pristine white surfaces did not age well, and the flat roofs/terraces have caused lots of problems with drainage. FLW's buildings are also notorious for their maintenance problems. I think I saw a video listed about leaks, which I will check out.

[@greatmustis]

Wright did Ribbon windows several times in his prairie houses. He did the free plan also and roof garden with Larkin building and hollyhock house.

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Thank you!

[@bobdinitto]

Interesting spacial concepts. I see this horizontal orientation with columns and scripted paths through the space often used in commercial structures such as office buildings and shopping malls.

[@pimentoso]

Great explanation!

[@angrydragonslayer]

Man, i actually sorta like this style I've always found architecture showpieces to be too focused on the architecture to actually live in comfortably but i think this one might be comfortable, despite my personal feelings of the windows.

[@viraksomethenbong5295]

The family who commissioned only live there for 3 weeks I don’t think it’s comfortable and it’s over budget also🤦‍♂️

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[@SaiSantoshMARU]

Informative, better than the FLW one interms of visual explanation. A giant leap!

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Found the channel through an article on Archdaily.

[@chrisemens4022]

Interesting. I always thought that the FREE PLAN was the thing the client often requests before accepting the proposal.

[@mysterydoodoo]

I love your videos! Can you do one about Phillip Johnson's Glass House?

[@ld8936]

I greatly enjoy this chanel, however, for what its worth, I thought I might offer a small insight into English speaking countries that are not America. To my knowledge, the term "open concept" is exclusively a North American expression, like the word "aluminum" vs aluminium. I have only ever heard "open concept" used in the American (read USA and I assume Canadian) context. And I have only ever heard and used the term "open-plan". Never the less, I appreciated the comparison of Writian open plan/concept vs Corbusian free plans.

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Great video as always. However, it looks like the discord link in the video description isn't working. Did you set it to be a temporary link?

[@stewarthicks]

Thanks for the heads up. I just decided to remove it for now...it's currently more geared toward UIC students.

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I thought the Maison Domino because of the six pillars that look like domino chip on floor plan but yeh pretty cool

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[@peterbrook329]

I am attracted to the warmth and detail of the Wright designs while Le Corbusier’s designs seem quite cold to me, Interesting as 3D sculpture but I wouldn’t care to live in one.

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7 videos DOWN! I was here

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Loving your videos. I really enjoy listening to experts describe their field to the lay-audience. If I could make a small suggestion, the jokey green screen segments are generally the weakest point of the videos. I know there's a lot of pressure to be engaging/entertaining, but they kind of clash with the tone of the rest of the content and don't seem like they're playing to your strengths.

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[@UGPepe]

corbusier is your typical french postmodernist: he does the easy job of deconstructing things without really knowing how to put them back together

[@leafboye33]

That's nice dear

[@ofacid3439]

The most underrated comment here

[@newground5222]

It’s ‘promenade architectural’

[@bxbank]

Just let as mid light in so one feels they are living outside inside. Simple.

[@UGPepe]

theoretically these justifications are all very complelling but the resulting spaces are ugly and sometimes even sinister so corbusier is clearly missing something fundamental about architecture, no wonder FLW made fun of him saying that he made one house and wrote two books about it

[@UGPepe]

oltedders I like most of what he built especially some of the Usonians like the Brandes House, Zimmerman's, Hanna House on a hexagonal module and more... there's a great album on amazon with all the 400 or so plans.

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

Mechanical Inhabitant.

[@0cer0]

So, surprisingly , Mies is much closer to Wright than to Le Corbusier…

[@buriedalive3192]

I admire some of Le Corbusier's ideas and works (the apartments inside of his Unité d'habitation are amazing for example), but damn, I really don't like his buildings. To me, they are cold and inhuman, uninviting and almost crude and akin to a construction site, like all of the humanity has been taken out of them while they were distilled into the simplest of shapes and colours possible. They are outright depressing.

[@dlwatib]

Obviously Le Corbusier never had to practice architecture in earthquake country. Silly fool thought all it takes is a few columns to hold up a roof. I count Le Corbusier as one of the destructionists of architecture. Many followed after him, producing horrendous buildings. Each a big imposing box on stilts sitting in the middle of its own unpleasant, lifeless, useless, bare plaza, maximally divorced from its environment.

[@pablomarquezimages920]

When you read you should show other images

[@issecret1]

Wonderful presentation, too bad I hate everything about this style

[@Lecornalien]

Corbusier the most hated architect in france, even parisian dont like hime.

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

I hate the z

[@cinemaipswich4636]

As a student of Architecture I do not have much love of Le Corbusier. All his designs and drawings are full of leaks and dribbling water problems. This is the first problem of him. He did not address the concept of community and society. I suggest anyone who want to be an Architect, flush this fool down the toilet.

[@woutmeulemans4853]

plss don't say his name like brat pitt speaking french

[@Nostalg1a]

Don’t forget this was a failed project and proved open plans are unsustainable (economically and environmentally)

[@brunodesrosiers266]

I am pretty appalled that you didn’t search how to write ‘’Premenade Architectural’’ properly. Even KZbin’s spellcheck picks at least one of your mistakes. It is ‘’Promenade’’ to begin with, which is a feminine word. This is why there must be an ‘’e’’ at the end of ‘’architecturale’’, which is an adjective.The latter doesn’t require a capital ‘’a’’ since in French we use these more sparingly. ‘’Promenade architecturale’’: how hard can this be? Other than that, your work is outstanding and quite necessary since architecture is so misunderstood. So, keep it up but please try harder avoiding banana peels!

[@femoidfilms5007]

im a le corbusier hater, dont take it personal but i have to dislike