Veiling Architecture Privacy in Loos and Le Corbusier

veiling architecture privacy in loos and le corbusier

the following attempts to discuss the different approaches to privacy adopted by adolf loos and le corbusier, as two of the most influential pioneers of modern architecture. it will be argued that both architects were influenced by the developing technologies of their time, yet they reacted differently to the increasing influence of film and photography on art, architecture and everyday life. t...

Cognition Meets Le Corbusier-Cognitive Principles of Architectural Design

Research on human spatial memory and navigational ability has recently shown the strong influence of reference systems in spatial memory on the ways spatial information is accessed in navigation and other spatially oriented tasks. One of the main findings can be characterized as a large cognitive cost, both in terms of speed and accuracy that occurs whenever the reference system used to encode ...

LE CORBUSIER ' S PRINCIPLES OF CITY PLANNING AND THElR APPLICATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

Architectural Metaphors of Knowledge: The Mundaneum Designs of Maurice Heymans, Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier

The author discusses the architectural plans of the Mundaneum made in the 1930s by the Belgian modernist architect Maurice Heymans in the footsteps of Le Corbusier and in collaboration with Paul Otlet. The Mundaneum was the utopian concept of a world center for the accumulation, organization, and dissemination of knowledge, invented by the visionary encyclopedist and internationalist Paul Otlet...

Contact Glasses and Veiling.

Complexity across scales in the work of Le Corbusier Using box-counting as a method for analysing facades

Since Benoît Mandelbrot raised the question about the length of Britain’s coastline in 1967, it has become obvious that fractal geometry is appropriate for describing irregular forms. In 1996 Carl Bovill applied box-counting, a fractal analysis method, for the first time to architecture in order to quantify the characteristic visual complexity of facades. This paper presents an approach utilizi...