Villa Savoye
Architect: Le Corbusier
Poissy, France
1928-29
Period: Modernism (Functionalism) - 'an objective, scientific approach to design so that form would derive logically from use, structure and material, rather than from the nostalgic consideration of historical styles, convention, and ornament' (Ideas of Order, 352)
Villa Savoye is the quintessential architectural example of early-Modernism. The house demonstrates Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture, considered a base for all architectural design; Piloti, Free Facade, Free Plan, Ribbon Windows and a Roof Garden.
jazzy_fact: the semi-circular base of the house acts as a drive-way, which has been suggested to be based on the exact turning radius of a 1927 Citroen automobile.
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