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The Avery Coonley house, also referred to as the Coonley House, or the Coonley Estate is located on a small peninsula surrounded by the Des Plaines River in Chicago, and of the few architecture pieces that Frank Lloyd Wright created, it is one of the largest prairie school styled homes that he ever developed; while also being the first of his work with a zoned residential plan. The other prairie school styled buildings that he created were the Dana-Thomas house and the Darwin D. Martin house. The house created a new layout, laid out in five separate, yet united property structures. He placed the public space, the bedroom wing, and the kitchen along with the servant areas on the second floor, creating three separate private spaces which had the best view of the surrounding landscapes. The bottom, however, had a direct relationship to the landscape around it, and included the entrances, the playroom, and the sewing room which were activities done in the public area during ...

Kisairis Espinal  Villa Schwob Villa Schwob was built in 1912 in Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, it's is the third largest city in French after Geneva and Lausanne. The architect on this project is Le Corbusier this was also his birthplace which is known for its unique architecture, microelectronics and its culture and sporting life. Throughout Le Corbusier career this is one of his least known projects due to the fact that he was a training architect during that time frame. This was a start of later issues that would become hallmarks of Le Corbusier, as his roof garden and spacious plan. There was a letter written to Ritter on June 1920, Jeanneret saw this house and right away she saw so many potentials, her idea was to incorporate new program she said ”I am devoted to serious works, even scientific, that is, to paintings that are at least the continuation of my House Schwob… But I look primarily at the Parthenon and Michelangelo… a reliable art. And ...

Villa Jeanneret-Perret is the first realization of Le Corbusier as an independent architect. The project built in 1912, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, home town of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.It was originally intended for his parents. The Villa Jeanneret-Perret is located on the edge of the forest on a very steep terrain, overlooking the north-west city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. The site offers a wide view and distant view. It is a family house built on a rectangular plane and supported by the outer walls and four central pillars, thus releasing all other internal partitions of their bearing function. Thus, interior spaces are separated only by light partitions, anticipating the principle of "piles" and "free plan". The house has two levels. It is like a compact cube, with a recess reserved for the entrance and the stairs. The axis of the house, or "cathedral transept" as Le Corbusier said, is extended by a central advance semicircle side south-west. The who...