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    Location82, Rue de Villiers · 78300 Poissy · Poissy, Yvelines, France
    ArchitectLe Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret
    OwnerFrench government
    Background

    By the end of the 1920s Le Corbusier was already an internationally renowned architect. His book Vers une Architecture had been translated into several languages, his work with the Centrosoyuz in Moscow had involved hi… See more

    History of the commission

    Pierre and Eugénie Savoye approached Le Corbusier about building a country home in Poissy in the spring of 1928. The prospective site was a green field on an otherwise wooded plot of land, with a magnificen… See more

    Construction

    Estimates of the cost in February 1929 lay in the region of half a million francs, although this excluded the cost of the lodge and the landscaping elements (almost twice the original budget). The project was tendered i… See more

    Design

    The Villa Savoye, which is probably Le Corbusier's best known building from the 1930s, had an enormous influence on international modernism. Its design embodied his emblematic "Five Points", the basic tenet… See more

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