IN 1927, THE GREAT SWISS-FRENCH ARCHITECT LE CORBUSIER completed a house in the Paris suburb of Garches. Twenty years later, British scholar Colin RoweÕs essay ÒThe Mathematics of the Ideal VillaÓ brought Garches to the foreground. And GarchesÑas architects refer to the houseÑhas stayed there ever since. GARCHES 1234 picks up where Rowe's essay left off and throws bold light on Le CorbusierÕs assertion that at Garches, more than any of his other projects, Òproportion ruled absolutely there, as absolute mistress.Ó Architect Jef7rey Hildner published an early version of this essay in the refereed Journal of Architectural Education. Here the essay appears in its final and fully illustrated form.