Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye

Illustrated abstract and sample chapters of a projected monograph 'Dynamics of Meaning Within an Architectural Form: Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye' by architect Anand Bhatt.

The analysis entails an identification of the architectural-semantic order of typology through the built object, using a composite ‘protocol of analysis’ which originates in the gray area amongst the disciplines by which one understands linguistic and plastic representational systems. This order prescribes the ‘nature’ of meaning here, and an insidious investigation [which results in the naming of the elements of this order] becomes capable of effecting a critique of conventional unities of architectural representation.