Villa Savoye a house designed by Le Corbusier. The house was
originally built as a country retreat on behest of the Savoye family. This is a
three-bedroom house, beautifully sited in an open field, is almost a square in
plan, with the upper living area supported on delicate piers. Le Corbusier is considered one of the most
influential architects of the 20th century. He is credited with changing the
face of urban architecture, bringing it into the technological age. In 1923 Le
Corbusier wrote: “The house is a machine for living in.” This was a radically
new view.
Le Corbusier had five
points to new Architecture.
1)
The supports – PILOTIS – elevating the mass off
the ground
2)
The free plan- the interior wall independent of
the support system can be arranged in a free plan
3)
The free façade, the corollary of the free plan
in the vertical plane
4)
The long horizontal sliding window
5)
The flat roof or roof garden, restoring,
supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.
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