villa savoye analysis Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/villa-savoye-analysis Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:40:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Villa Savoye HOUSE POISSY, FRANCE http://travelsfinders.com/villa-savoye-house-poissy-france.html http://travelsfinders.com/villa-savoye-house-poissy-france.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:39:26 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=220927 LE CORBUSIER With its white walls, generous windows, and open-plan living areas, the Villa Savoye is perhaps the most iconic house by the great architect, Le Corbusier. When he was commissioned to design this country retreat on the outskirts of Paris, Le Corbusier was already a pioneer of modernist architecture-an innovative style based upon the idea that the form of a building was determined by its function. In modernist buildings materials such as concrete and glass were used in striking new ways. In his book of 1932, Vers Une Architecture (Toward An Architecture), Le Corbusier listed five principles that modern

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