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
Semi-detached house (1927) in the Weißenhofsiedlung , Stuttgart
Villa Savoye (1928–1931), Poissy-sur-Seine
Casa Curutchet (1949-1953), La Plata
Sainte-Marie de la Tourette Monastery (1956–1960), Éveux
More architects
LTS Patrimonium (1952-1956), Amsterdam
Auditorium of the Technical University of Delft (1959–1966)
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
Commons : Pilotis - collection of images, videos and audio files