Identify TWO architectural features of each building and describe their meanings

ARCHITECTURE: MODERNISM TO POSTMODERNISM

QUESTION NINETEEN

Plate 10: Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1929

(i) Identify at least TWO iconographic features of the exterior of this house.

Select and name ONE other twentieth-century house, and identify at least TWO iconographic features of the exterior of the chosen building.

(ii) Describe the meanings conveyed by the features you identified, and explain how these

features have been used to convey meaning in each house.

(iii) Evaluate the extent to which this iconography succeeds in conveying ideas about the nature of modern urban living. (Excellence)