◆Architect:Le Corbusier
◆Location:Poissy, France
◆Date:1928 to 1929
◆Building Type:House
◆Construction System:concrete and plastered unit masonry
◆Style:Modern

【Notes】

An early and classic exemplar of the "International Style", which hovers above a grass plane
on thin concrete pilotti, with strip windows, and a flat roof with a deck area, ramp, and a
few contained touches of curvaceous walls.

【Commentary】

"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)."

—Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture:
from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p530.

【The Five Points of a New Architecture】

1.The Pilotis
2.The roof gardens
3."Free" plan
4.The horizontal window
5.The free facade

"The Five Points of a New Architecture" were formulated by Le Corbusier(1887-1965) in 1927,
in order to give a theoretical basis for the fundamental principles of the Modern Movement.
The Villa Savoye is the perfect illustration of this theory.

【Address】

Villa Savoye
82 rue de Villiers
78300 Poissy
01 39 65 01 06 - vox
01 39 65 19 33 - fax
villa-savoye@monuments-france.fr - email
www.monum.fr