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The Villa Cook (also known as Maison Cook) was a house that was built by architect, Le Corbusier. The house is located in Boulogne-sur-Seine, in France. Le Corbusier, who was then not very well-known, was introduced to the Cook family. At the time, Le Corbusier was designing a series of villas. Later, the Cooks commissioned Le Corbusier to design the Villa Cook on the outskirts of Paris. Le Corbusier labeled it as “the first cubic house.” Villa Cook was one of the first works of Le Corbusier that was built according to his Five Points of Architecture: piloti, open plan, free facade, horizontal sliding windows, and roof garden. The spaces in the room are ground floor, first floor, second, floor, and roof floor. On the ground floor, there is a large entrance hall and stairs. There is also access in the back to the garden and to the utility room. The first floor has the main staircase that connects the ground floor and a plant that seems to wrap around the stairs. On the second floo...