Villa Savoye
VRA Core
Title
Villa Savoye
Agent
Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)
Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss architect, 1896-1967)
Location
Poissy, Île-de-France, France
50.952777
Date
1929-1931 (creation)
20th century
Style Period
International Style (modern European architecture style)
Modern
Modernist
Cultural Context
French
Worktype
private residences
Material
steel
glass
concrete
Technique
construction (assembling)
Subject
Architecture and City Planning
architectural exteriors
architectural interiors
Description
Interior view
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
© Javier Gomez
ID
GOMEZAT1219
Source
Javier Gomez
State Edition
35 mm slides
Collection
Citation
Corbusier, Le and Pierre Jeanneret, Villa Savoye, 1929-1931 (creation), Poissy, Île-de-France, France, TTU Arch Design Images. Image Source: Javier Gomez. https://archimage.lib.ttu.edu/items/show/16117.
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