Villa Savoye
Item
- Title
- Villa Savoye
- Creator
- Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)
- Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss architect, 1896-1967)
- City
- Poissy, Île-de-France, France
- Country
- France
- Date Created
- 1929-1931 (creation)
- Century
- 20th century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- International Style (modern European architecture style)
- Modern
- Modernist
- Cultural Context
- French
- Materials
- steel
- glass
- concrete
- Techniques
- construction (assembling)
- Subject
- architectural exteriors
- architectural interiors
- Description
- Partial view of east elevation, 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
- Javier Gomez
- Photographer
- Javier Gomez
- Rights Holder
- © Javier Gomez
- Texas Tech University Libraries
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965) and Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss architect, 1896-1967), “Villa Savoye”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed November 25, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/40218