The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · F

Five points

Also called five points of architecture

Le Corbusier’s five points of a new architecture (1926): pilotis, free plan, free façade, ribbon window and roof garden, all consequences of the concrete frame.

See also: Pilotis, Dom-ino

Rules that use the word

The five points of a new architecture. With a concrete frame, a house should stand on pilotis, have a free plan and a free façade, be lit by horizontal ribbon windows, and carry a garden on its flat roof.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters The Roof, Frame and Skin, The Modern Movement, Reading the Treatises.

Nearby in the glossary

Fen · Ferme ornée · Fillet · Finial · Flemish bond · Flute · Flying buttress · Foil