Baptized “the clear Hours”, the villa Savoye of 1928 with 1931 was built on a ground of seven hectares, on the commune of Poissy (Yvelines, France), by the Architecte Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gray, said Le Corbusier who completed, with this realization, its period of the white villas .

Presentation

Villa de weekend for the family Savoye (Pierre, administrator of an insurance company and its Eugenie wife) which accepts the project, it affirms an architectural will outside satisfying “ inside, all the functional needs ”.

Le Corbusier describe Savoye like customers “deprived completely of preconceived ideas: neither modern, nor old”. The villa is the perfect illustration of the theory of the Five points of the modern architecture formulated by the Swiss originator in 1927, to theorize the basic principles of the modern Movement: piles, roof-gardens, the free plan, the Window in length and the free Frontage.

Savoye live the villa of 1931 with 1940. During the Second world war, it is successively occupied by the Germans then the Allies and is seriously damaged. In 1958, the town of Poissy acquires the property which is then cut down by six hectares for the construction of a college and uses the villa like Youth club and arts center.

The building is classified historic building by decree of the December 16th 1965. Under the impulse of the Minister for the Culture of the time, Andre Malraux, it was restored afterwards of the years of abandonment and from now on is opened with the public.

Some dates

  • 1928 Pierre Savoye and his wife choose Le Corbusier for the construction of their house of weekend. The construction of a “ box on pile ” is accepted by the owners.
  • 1929 - Beginning of construction.
  • 1931 - Savoye move in. Work of resumption of the sealing and heating are necessary.
  • 1940 - 1945 the house is occupied by the Germans then the Allies and is found seriously damaged.
  • 1958 - the town of Poissy exproprie Savoye to build a college on part of the ground.
  • 1962 - the city yields the villa to the State which takes conservative measures.
  • 1963 - Beginning of the general restoration of the villa by the architect Jean Dubuisson, then by Jean-Louis Véret between 1985 and 1992.

See too

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Internal bonds

  • Le Corbusier
  • radiant Foundation Le Corbusier
  • Quoted of Marseilles

External bonds

  1. Analysis of the villa Descriptive Savoye
  2. of the Savoye Villa on the site of the town of Poissy (of which part of this article is extracted)
  3. Fondation Le Corbusier

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