Villa Savoye

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Title

Villa Savoye

Agent

Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)
Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss architect, 1896-1967)

Location

Poissy, Île-de-France, France
82 rue de Villiers
50.952777

Date

1929-1931 (creation)
20th century

Style Period

International Style (modern European architecture style)
Modern
Modernist

Cultural Context

French

Worktype

buildings
dwellings
houses

Material

steel
glass
concrete

Technique

construction (assembling)

Subject

Architecture and City Planning
architectural exteriors
architectural interiors

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

Rights

© Raimund McClain
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ID

RMEAS356

State Edition

20061024
scanned from 35mm color slides with Nikon Super Coolscan 5000

Citation

Corbusier, Le and Pierre Jeanneret, Villa Savoye, 1929-1931 (creation), Poissy, Île-de-France, France, TTU Arch Design Images. https://archimage.lib.ttu.edu/items/show/11155.

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