Villa Savoye/Table Of Contents

Abstract, Synopsis. ~  Motto. ~ Preface, Method.

EXCURSUS: Mathematics of the Sub-Basement Plan: lingusiticity v/s plasticity and architectural representation.

Chapter – 01.: THE MATHEMATICAL 'LANGUAGE':
MODERNIST ARCHITECTURAL TYPES AS REPRESENTATIONS OF DIALECTICAL ANTAGONISMS IN HISTORY

1. TYPOLOGY: the Industrial Age building type, villa as an example.
2. THE MATHEMATICAL 'LANGUAGE': CODES.
   1. The Mathematical ‘Language’. Codes of Unification, Linear Systems & the Active Field.
   2. Type as a Hieroglyph and it's structure. Means of Identification: the bodily-binding surfaces & Means of Association.
   3. Summation: the Gaze and 'I' in Architecture: Spirit of the "Architectural Moment".
3. TOPOLOGY: Le Corbusier's design process: the simultaneous generation of space and 'language', with special attention to the geometrical procedures which identify this type as a villa.

Chapter – 02. LINGUISTICITY:
THE ALLEGORICAL CONTEXT & THE PROGRAMME OF THIS HOUSE.

1. SPATIALITY: The Elements of House-ness & it's frame. Description of the Villa.
   1. Identification of Elements.
   2. Analysis.
2. LINEARITY: Encoding on the Architectural Promenade in the content of the frame. The Architectural Promenade.
   1. Allegoric Contents.
   2. Interpretation

Chapter – 03. THE OPEN CONCEPT

1. TOPOLOGY : Concavity and Convexity. As two basic notions of space. The 'empty' signifier - the full signifier - the dynamic myth.
2. TYPOLOGY : The Dom-Ino as an Integer, [R+]. Or, the indivisible unit in the chains of signification.

POSTSCRIPT – 01. On the System of Representation described above.

POSTSCRIPT – 02. On the Modernist Architectural Unities.

 

Appendix: the Barthian concepts of Language & Myth.

Bibliography.