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The Le Corbusier Framework

Machine for Living & Modular Thinking

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Le Corbusier believed that form must answer to constraints — material, site, brief, budget. Le Corbusier's design philosophy captures the specific questions they asked before drawing a single line — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The machine for living & modular thinking framework distils Le Corbusier's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Le Corbusier made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Le Corbusier's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Le Corbusier's thinking.

Core Philosophy

Every environment is a machine designed to serve specific human needs—no more, no less. True innovation comes from identifying the irreducible elements of function, then combining them through modular systems that can adapt and scale. Ornament is crime; efficiency married to proportion is beauty.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"What is the irreducible structural logic that makes this function possible?"

4 more questions in Le Corbusier's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Le Corbusier Would NOT Do · sample
Preserve traditional methods simply because they're familiar or comfortable

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Le Corbusier actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Le Corbusier's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Le Corbusier, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • le-corbusier.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • le-corbusier-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Le Corbusier. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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