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Villa Cook
Le Corbusier
mit Pierre Jeanneret
1926
6, rue Denfert-Rocherau, 92100 Boulogne-sur-Seine
LC Paris
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The clients for this house, the expatriate American journalist William
Cook and his French wife, Jeanne, belonged to the intellectual and artistic
circle that included many of Le Corbusier‘s clients, the Steins among
them. In fact, the Cooks commissioned their house within weeks of the
Steins, but moved into it long before their friends could inhabit the palace
at Garches. The speed with which the house was designed refl ects, in part,
the extent to which it expressed a set of thoroughly formulated ideas
concerning art and industry. As Le Corbusier stated, „here are applied very
clearly the certitudes acquired to this point.“
The certitudes took the form of what Le Corbusier called „the true cubic
house“. Plan, section, and elevation all derive from the same square and
in reference to one another. The canon of the Five Points: the continuous
strip window, round pilotis, free plan, free facade and roof garden is
deployed in service to this cubic organization, but without the axial
extension implicit in the Maison Dom-ino.