- The materials used in the Villa Savoye is prosaic materials; such materials were used during this time in building houses for lower-class Parisians.
- Le Cobusier with a model of the Villa Savoye. ... The Villa Savoye is considered by many to be the seminal work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
- Despite Villa Savoye’s rather unsatisfactory history of cost overruns and architectural defects, it was acquired by the government as a national landmark.
- Situated in Poissy, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye is one of the most significant contributions to modern architecture in the 20th century.
- Villa Savoye is devoid of any visible structure on the outside, and this free façade is one of the critical defining features of Corbusier's design.
- Our guides will show you around the Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier's masterpiece built in 1929-1931 for the Savoye family ! Fridays at 3pm, depending on availability.
- Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye is not any design house, it is THE house where the architect implemented for the first time his concept of “New Architecture”.
- When looked at Villa Savoye the eye strikes how the floor is sported by pilotis (Pilotis is a set of posts raising a building up from the ground.) and area they create.
- The Villa Savoye features all of these elements, with a sleek, white facade and a dramatic, sculptural staircase leading to the roof terrace.
- The Villa Savoye is a masterpiece of 20th-century design and one of the greatest works by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier.