Maison Citrohan, Struttgart, Germany;(1927); Purism
Le Corbusier began to study purism as he looked into the house as a “machine for living.” Maison Citrohan was the last of three prototypes, as he looked into a house with double height spaces that would function seamlessly with the daily lives of its inhabitance. The three prototypes were the Domino house, the Monol house, and finally Maison Citrohan. The way the house would function as a machine is how they were built, in series. Le Corbusier was interested at the time in industrialization and the machines that began to mass produce products, and he wanted to do the same for homes, but in doing so he also wanted to contain the humanist expression inside of the building. Each house would include a double height space with two walls, which was inspired by his visual experience of space inside of popular Paris bars. The houses would include a mezzanine and have a large light near the darker areas light did n...