Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Villa Savoye
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Preferred Title:
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Villa Savoye
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Image View:
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General view of the gate house
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Creator:
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Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965); Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss architect, 1896-1967)
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Location:
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site: Poissy, Île-de-France, France
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Location Note:
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82 rue de Villiers
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Date:
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1929 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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International Style (modern European architecture style); Modernist; Modern
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Work Type 1:
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house
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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steel; glass
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; guard house; pilotis
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Description:
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"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: Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle; Architecture, from prehistory to post-modernism : the Western tradition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986 (0810910772))
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-LC-VS-A3
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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