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Le Corbusier states the Five Points of a new architecture: pilots, roof garden, free plan, free façade, ribbon window

By 1926–27 Le Corbusier numbered five points: house on pilots, roof garden, free plan, free façade, horizontal window. Industrial path: a repeatable concrete kit, distinct from the 1923 book’s rhetoric. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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By 1926–27 Le Corbusier numbered five points: house on pilots, roof garden, free plan, free façade, horizontal window. He did not pour every later copy. Industrial path: a repeatable concrete kit, distinct from the 1923 book’s rhetoric. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Context

Weissenhof houses are a neighbouring built row. Savoye is the canonical villa. Urban Radiant City is not the Five Points. Perriand’s interiors share the 1920s atelier.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

A numbered building kit is an industrial path. High confidence on the doctrine. Later international-style copies are mixed authorship.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Le Corbusier

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He formulated and published the Five Points. Weissenhof and Villa Savoye demonstrated them. Direct as author of an industrial building code-of-practice.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLe Corbusier states the Five Points of a new architecture: pilots, roof garden, free plan, free façade, ribbon window
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 January 1927 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Le CorbusierEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fondation Le Corbusier — English portalFondation Le Corbusier · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Fondation Le Corbusier independently presents the Five Points in the villa oeuvre. Britannica independently treats them as his architectural rules. MoMA independently exhibits the villas as demonstrations. No unique 1927 patent is required.

Established: Five Points as his 1920s numbered doctrine, public by 1927 Weissenhof. Not established: a unique copy-count. Conventional 1927. Not 1931 Savoye completion as this title.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Le Corbusier states the Five Points of a new architecture: pilots, roof garden, free plan, free façade, ribbon window are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Le Corbusier states the Five Points of a new architecture: pilots, roof garden, free plan, free façade, ribbon window. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1927-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLe Corbusier
  2. contributed toFactLe Corbusier states the Five Points of a new architecture: pilots, roof garden, free plan, free façade, ribbon window
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Le Corbusier states the Five Points of a new architecture: pilots, roof garden, free plan, free façade, ribbon window. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-five-points

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