Pilotis

Pilotis (French: masculine, German: pile structure ) is the name in modern architecture for an open or visible pillar construction on the ground floor. The Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier introduced the technical term, which he explained in his cinq points .

Examples

Le Corbusier

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  Semi-detached house (1927) in the Weißenhofsiedlung , Stuttgart

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  Villa Savoye (1928–1931), Poissy-sur-Seine

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  Casa Curutchet (1949-1953), La Plata

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  Sainte-Marie de la Tourette Monastery (1956–1960), Éveux

More architects

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  Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (1955)

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  LTS Patrimonium (1952-1956), Amsterdam

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  Auditorium of the Technical University of Delft (1959–1966)

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  City Hall (1969), Boston

literature

• Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Honor, John Fleming: Lexicon of World Architecture. Munich: Prestel 1992 ISBN 3-7913-1238-3 (incorrectly pilote in the German translation )

Web links

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