A Little House / / ed. by Fondation Le Corbusier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• HerausgeberIn: Fondation Le Corbusier, ,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 2nd edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (84 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; A LITTLE HOUSE --; THE LITTLE HOUSE --; HOUSES TOO CATCH THE WHOOPING-COUGH --; DRAWINGS FROM THE YEAR 1945 --; THE CRIME --; CONTENT --; Afterword
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783035620696; 9783110738230; 9783110696288; 9783110696271; 9783110704679; 9783110704785; 9783110704716; 9783110704518
• DOI: 10.1515/9783035620696
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Fondation Le Corbusier.

Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his parents in 1925. Because of its spare arrangement of spaces, he referred to it as a “dwelling machine.” Even today it remains the modern prototype of the “small house” that fulfills all of the functions of a residence with a minimum of floor area and seamless transitions between spaces. For the first time, this book is appearing in three separate language editions, following the original edition in which Le Corbusier documented the history of the building: with photographs, sketches and a poetic text. Access to the original photographs allowed the quality of the illustrations in this edition to be improved significantly.