Poissy le corbusier biography
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Poissy le corbusier biography
Villa Savoye and Gardener's Lodge
Poissy, France, 1928
« The view is beautiful, the grass is beautiful, the forest too; we will touch these as little as possible.
The house will alight on the grass like an object, without disturbing anything ».
Commission
Villa Savoye was a veritable manifesto, the last of the Purist houses, and it remains the one that best illustrates the “five points of modern architecture”.
Under the spell of the house built by Le Corbusier for the Church family in Ville-d’Avray, Pierre and Eugénie Savoye commissioned a contemporary weekend home for their spacious seventeen acre site along the Seine at Poissy, on the Beau Regard heights.
Devoid of “preconceived ideas” and with a substantial budget, the Savoye couple offered the architect the chance to implement many of his architectural theories of the 1920s.
Project
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