Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Unwin Simon

Author:Unwin, Simon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317555025
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

7 This sketch of the section of the Villa Savoye is also a diagram of the ascent of human beings from ‘animal to superman’. (After Le Corbusier.)

8 The section through the Villa Savoye is also comparable to that of Palladio’s Villa Rotonda. It too has three levels: that of the underclass; that of the ‘heroes’ on the piano nobile; and that of the gods above.

Le Corbusier was of course not the only architect in history to explore the idea that architecture, as a product of the intellect, transcends the natural world, and that architecture can layer, vertically, different states of being. Andrea Palladio expressed the same in his Villa Rotonda (8) which, in a way similar to the Villa Savoye, stands on top of a mounded hill (outside Vicenza in north Italy) surveying the countryside all around. The lowest layer of this house was for the servants (the underclass) and menial activities. The main floor was for those who thought of themselves as superior, noble. And the dome represented the heavens above – the realm of the gods.

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