Things they don’t teach in architecture school. Gardener’s house at Villa Savoye. 4 piloti special.

Let’s get obscure. Corbusier at 30 years old. Refrigerated slaughterhouse design.

Villa savoye tango. Corbusier choreographing how guardrail and handrail coalesce and dissociate along the spiral path.

Corbusier tray of light. Savoye vs Tourette.

A 5x5 grid with 15’-6” spacing, with pilloti gone wild on first floor and beams penetrating through transom at the entry. Corbusier savoye structure.

Corbusier bringing the outside in. Madame savoye testifying: 'It's raining in the hall, it's raining in the ramp, and the wall of the garage is absolutely soaked. What's more, it's still raining in my bathroom, which floods every time it rains.'

“Le Corbusier was inspired by the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, with its two ramps leading to the summit. At the villa, he created a ramp that began as an interior feature and then became an exterior one. The ramp is composed of two parallel flights that guide the eye to the

Learning from the ancients. Corbusier's architecture education = measuring, drawing, painting and writing about ancient ruins. he embedded his modern architecture with ancient ideas he uncovered in his early travels.

Lesson 1: ritual - pompeii sink left vs. villa savoye right

Villa savoye plans section.

Why did corbusier put a stair, a ramp and a sink at the entry of villa savoye?

Villa savoye dressing room.

Game. Name the famous villa.

Hint 2:

Hint: light shaft

Game. A very generic diagram for a very specific building. Name the building.

Sou serpentine

Game. From the sketch, name the pavilion.

Over under casa mila roof #gaudi

Looking down Casa mila model vs looking skywards in its reality. Gaudi.

Richard rogers in his own words. “At first, the Chairman of Lloyds had said they wanted [their new building] to house them for another century. They gave us a very detailed program to that effect, but this collapsed the day after we completed the project because the digital era