Carpenter Visual Arts Center

Le Corbusier – Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961-1963

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the only building actually designed by Le Corbusier in the United States, and one of only two in the Americas (the other being the Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina). Le Corbusier designed it with the collaboration of the Chilean architect Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente at his studio at 35 rue de Sèvres; the building was completed in 1962.
After much debate, a site at Quincy and Prescott Streets was chosen, respecting the original proposal for the building. The space allotted was quite small, so the completed building appears as a compact, roughly cylindrical mass bisected by an S-shaped ramp at the third floor. Le Corbusier's first design featured a much more pronounced ramp that further separated the two halves of the central mass. However, the initial design created the problem of too much disruption of the central mass. This problematic auditorium was reconciled using a pinwheel effect such that in the finally executed design, the two halves meet at a vertical core that houses an elevator. The concrete ramp cantilevers from this central spine and stands on pilotis. The arrival at the top of the ramp is in the heart of the building and leads to various studio and exhibition spaces viewed through windows and glass doors, providing views of the building's educational functions without interrupting ongoing activities.

The Carpenter Center's exterior looks very different from different angles. From Prescott Street looking toward the curved studio space, one can see the brise-soleil that is positioned perpendicular to the direction of the central portion of the ramp, making only their narrow ends visible from the street. The view from Quincy Street, however, reveals ondulatoires on the outer curve of this studio, which interfere with the curve of the building less than the brise-soleil on the opposite side. On the ramp from Quincy Street just before entering the building, one sees grids of squares and rectangles of windows, brise-soleils, and studio spaces, rather than the curves of the two halves of the building.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_Center_for_the_Visual_Arts

Le Corbusier felt that this architecture should be a synthesis of his architectural principles and therefore incorporated his five points in his project.