Le Corbusier

Trace the principles with your body

The Five Points stick better as movement—from pilotis up to the roof—than as slogans to memorize. Villa Savoye is the textbook entry. Modulor can be read as linking human scale to standardization. Comparing Unité and Cabanon—large collective living versus a tiny cabin—deepens that idea. The National Museum of Western Art translates the Museum of Infinite Growth into a Japanese site. Reading master–pupil ties with Maekawa, Sakakura and others shows paths of influence into Japanese modern architecture. Swiss-born architect and planner who worked in France. He led the modern movement across houses, chapels, housing blocks, and capital planning. In Japan he is known for the National Museum of Western Art; Kunio Maekawa and Junzo Sakakura trained in his office.