"...The elements of architcture are light and shade, walls and space." L.C. [8]
					introduction Villa Garche, also known as "Les Terrasses", was built in 1927 for Getrude Stein's brother Michael and his wife Sarah. The land, in Vaucresson, a suburb in the west of Paris, was owned by Gabrielle de Monzie.
			The Steins shared the villa with Mrs. de Monzie. They proved to be the ideal clients for Le Corbusier, representing his twenties ideology. As a wealthy man, Mr. Stein was involved in the construction of the San Francisco's street car system. Mrs.Stein was one of the first collectors of Matisse and was expecting the new home could inhabit her collection. Being involved with industry and modern art predisposed the couple to appreciate the modern sensibility of Le Corbusier's design, but they had no conceptions of what their house should look like. Le Corbusiers ideology considered the dwelling as a work of sculpture and as a 'machine a habiter', organized in interaction with nature to exposure to sunlight. In this time, Le Corbusier explored design strategies in which the inside and the outside merge together, allways following Purist principles that the villa may be read either as mass or as a series of planes. Together with the Villa Savoie, the two villas incorporated the Domino-System, allowing a free plan thru a structural frame, principles which later led to the 'Five Points of a New Architecture'.