Villa Savoye

Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)

Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss architect, 1896-1967)

Poissy, Île-de-France, France

France

1929-1931 (creation)

20th century

Architecture and City Planning

villas

country houses

houses

dwellings

residential structures

International Style (modern European architecture style)

Modern

Modernist

French

steel

glass

concrete

construction (assembling)

architectural exteriors

architectural interiors

General view of building from the west, 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

Javier Gomez

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