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    Five Points of ArchitectureLe Corbusier is one of the most important architects of the 20th century. He is known as one of the pioneers of modern architecture because of many of his ideas and "recipes" in architecture. One of his most famous was "The Five Points of a New Architecture" which he had explained in "L'Esprit Nouveau" and the book "Vers une architecture", which he had developed throughout the 1920s Le Corbusier's development of this idea modified the architectural promenade in a new way, presented in 1926. The five points are: stilts, the roof garden, the free plan, the free facade and the horizontal window. . Le Corbusier used these points as the structural basis for most of his architecture until the 1950s, which is evident in many of his designs. Le Corbusier's essay "The Five Points of a New Architecture" focuses on issues raised in architectural design, proposing a foundation and layout within it. Similar texts, for example the progress of the "cell" and the figures of the Standardized House, lack connection with the design process specific to the five points. The Modulor, which is an anthropometric scale used as a system for planning a number of Le Corbusier's buildings, is another theoretical attempt, which has failed to establish a clear relationship with the design process and also with research architectural form, which personifies the five points. On the other hand, while Le Corbusier himself was of an opposing view, these ideas can be presented more freely as purely theoretical ideas. An exception is the concept of regulatory tracis (regulatory lines), which use the geometric proportions of buildings. He predicted some ideas behind the five points in a bare...... middle of paper ...... open plan that had a parking space, entrance and patio. The roof also served as a garden terrace. Le Corbusier wanted to show that the partitions of the rooms on each floor were independent of the structural supports, therefore the partitions were curved. Because the five points were illustrated there, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye can be considered as a built plan. of Le Corbusier's five points. The idea of ​​symmetry is maintained on the exterior, the four elevations are almost identical, consisting of ribbon windows and openings spanning the full width of the facade on the second floor, supported by evenly spaced stilts. Within the points, the free plane is the most important in the design, where the large wall curving freely between the pilotis on the ground floor reflects the idea of ​​the "free plane" the strongest.: