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    Villa Savoye is a modernist villa designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin in Poissy, France between 1928-1931. It is considered one of the most recognizable examples of the International style and a manifesto of Le Corbusier's five points of architecture. Originally a country retreat, it fell into disuse and disrepair but was later restored and is now open to visitors. It exemplifies Le Corbusier's five points through its use of pilotis, a free facade, open floor plan, ribbon windows, and roof garden.

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    Villa Savoye is a modernist villa designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin in Poissy, France between 1928-1931. It is considered one of the most recognizable examples of the International style and a manifesto of Le Corbusier's five points of architecture. Originally a country retreat, it fell into disuse and disrepair but was later restored and is now open to visitors. It exemplifies Le Corbusier's five points through its use of pilotis, a free facade, open floor plan, ribbon windows, and roof garden.

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    Villa Savoye is a modernist villa designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin in Poissy, France between 1928-1931. It is considered one of the most recognizable examples of the International style and a manifesto of Le Corbusier's five points of architecture. Originally a country retreat, it fell into disuse and disrepair but was later restored and is now open to visitors. It exemplifies Le Corbusier's five points through its use of pilotis, a free facade, open floor plan, ribbon windows, and roof garden.

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    Villa Savoye

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    Villa Savoye is a modernist villa designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin in Poissy, France between 1928-1931. It is considered one of the most recognizable examples of the International style and a manifesto of Le Corbusier's five points of architecture. Originally a country retreat, it fell into disuse and disrepair but was later restored and is now open to visitors. It exemplifies Le Corbusier's five points through its use of pilotis, a free facade, open floor plan, ribbon windows, and roof garden.

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    The Villa Savoye is considered one of the most iconic examples of modernist architecture and represents Le Corbusier's five points of architecture.

    Pilotis, a free facade, an open floor plan, ribbon windows, and a roof garden.

    Lifting the structure off the ground with pilotis, a free facade, an open floor plan, ribbon windows, and a roof garden.

    Villa Savoye (French pronunciation: [savwa]) is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France.

    It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931.[3]

    A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points" of new architecture, the villa is representative of the bases of modern architecture, and is one of the most easily recognizable and renowned examples of theInternational style.

    Originally built as a country retreat on behest of the Savoye family, the house fell into disuse after 1940, and entered a state of disrepair during World War II. It passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 (a rare occurrence, as Le Corbusier was still living at the time). It was thoroughly renovated from 1985 to 1997, and under the care of the Centre des monuments nationaux, the refurbished house is now open to visitors year-round.

    It was Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (19291931) that most succinctly summed up his five points of architecture that he had elucidated in the journal L'Esprit Nouveau and his book Vers une architecture, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s. First, Le Corbusier lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground, supporting it by pilotis reinforced concrete stilts. These pilotis, in providing the structural support for the house, allowed him to elucidate his next two points: a free faade, meaning non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished, and an open floor plan, meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls. The second floor of the Villa Savoye includes long strips of ribbon windows that allow unencumbered views of the large surrounding yard, and which constitute the fourth point of his system. The fifth point was the roof garden to compensate for the green area consumed by the building and replacing it on the roof. A ramp rising from ground level to the third floor roof terrace allows for an architectural promenade through the structure. The white tubular railing recalls the industrial "ocean-liner" aesthetic that Le Corbusier much admired. As if to put an exclamation mark after Le Corbusier's homage to modern industry, the driveway around the ground floor, with its semicircular path, measures the exact turning radius of a 1927 Citron automobile.

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