Indeed, you have read about it, seen it in photographs, and drawn it, maybe even written on it, hundreds of times and now you. The villa savoye and the modernist historic monument. The location is quiet, typically suburban, and makes you feel it probably hasnt changed much since the time the savoyes acquired the plot in 1928. Le corbusiers villa savoye is an exploration in the use of primary form. In late 1928, the horizontal grid, and by consequence the whole building size, was scaled down from 5 to 4. He emphasized these forms with combinations of parallel planes, light, shadow and void. The villa today the house is located in a residential area of poissy, close to a school which occupies six hectares of the original estate. He had a fascination with proportion, modularity, and geometry, often taking his cue from classical architecture theory.
This article argues that the debate over the fate of le corbusiers villa savoye 19281931 in poissy, francewhich was in derelict condition by the 1950soccasioned an international reconsideration of the architects work as well as a reconsideration of the french architectural patrimony. It has been described by william curtis as an industrial extension of laugiers first typology,1 the. The movement of cars to enter the interior of the house a concept that empassioned le corbusier for years is the trigger for the design of the building. It was designed by the swiss architects le corbusier and his cousin, pierre jeanneret and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete. The architecture of villa savoye in plan, the house is based on a precise square grid marked by 25 columns, while in elevation the grid becomes rectangular. Villa savoye 192931 form analysis daniel morrissey le corbusier 18871965. Modern and contemporary art le corbusier, villa savoye le corbusier, villa savoye, poissy, france, 1929. Decouvrir le corbusier, son epoque et des realisations.
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