Selected Bibliography Architecture - Form Space and Order | Page 322

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Villa Garches, Vaucresson, France, 1926–27, Le Corbusier
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In his essay, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, 1947,
Colin Rowe pointed out the similarity between
the spatial subdivision of a Palladian villa and the
structural grid of a villa by Le Corbusier. While both
villas shared a similar proportioning system and a
relationship to a higher mathematical order, Palladio’s
villa consisted of spaces with fixed shapes and
harmonic interrelationships. Le Corbusier’s villa was
composed of horizontal layers of free space defined by
the floor and roof slabs. The rooms varied in shape and
were asymmetrically arranged at each level.

Villa Foscari, Malcontenta, Italy, 1558, Andrea Palladio

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