Title

Villa Savoye

Creator

Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)

Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss architect, 1896-1967)

City

Poissy, Île-de-France, France

Address

82 rue de Villiers

GPS

50.952777

Country

France

Date Created

1929-1931 (creation)

Century

20th century

Classification

Architecture and City Planning

Building Type

houses

dwellings

residential structures

Style/Period

International Style (modern European architecture style)

Modern

Modernist

Cultural Context

French

Materials

steel

glass

concrete

Techniques

construction (assembling)

Description

Originally built as weekend country retreat, now totally surrounded by school and housing. "Unlike the confined urban locations of most of Le Corbusier's earlier houses, the openness of the Poissy site permitted a freestanding building and the full realization of his five-point program. Essentially the house comprises two contrasting, sharply defined, yet interpenetrating external aspects. The dominant element is the square single-storied box, a pure, sleek, geometric envelope lifted buoyantly above slender pilotis, its taut skin slit for narrow ribbon windows that run unbroken from corner to corner (but not over them, thus preserving the integrity of the sides of the square)." p 530

Source

Raimund McClain

Photographer

Raimund McClain

Date of Photography

20061024

Rights Holder

© Raimund McClain

Access Rights

Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.

Item sets

All Faculty Collections

Raimund McClain European Architecture Collection

Media

https://www.myweb.ttu.edu/saschuma/RMEAS348.jpg

Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965) and Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss architect, 1896-1967), “Villa Savoye”, Arch Design Images, accessed November 15, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/archlib/item/32719