Text description provided by the architects. Situated in Poissy, a small commune outside of Paris, Villa Savoye is one of the most significant contributions to modern architecture in the 20th century.

World Heritage Corb: one of the most important buildings by architect Le Corbusier from the 17 that have been to UNESCO's World Heritage List is Villa Savoye, the top-heavy weekend retreat created ...

Modernism made you mad? One remedy might be smashing your Lego model of Villa Savoye into tiny pieces. If you don’t have such a model handy, there’s now a virtual solution to defacing Corbu ...

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The client was my daughter Sylvie, all of three, and the presumptive building happened to be the Villa Savoye. Not Le Corbusier’s landmark machine for living in Poissy, France, but an ...

Havsteen-Mikkelsen's sculpture is a 1:1 replica of a corner of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye that appears partially submerged – as if the building is sinking beneath the water. According to the ...

Once materialized in 1929 in the iconic Villa Savoye project, Le Corbusier's principles - pilotis, free design of the ground plan, free design of the facade, horizontal window, and roof garden ...