Abstract
This chapter focuses on Villa Savoye situated in Poissy. Villa savoye is perhaps the best known of Le Corbusier's buildings and an architectural icon for many. The last of the purist villas freely and confidently expresses a decade of ideals. Villa Savoye reflects Le Corbusier's belief in the connection between the ancient and the modern. Villa Savoye was conceived as a natural consequence of classical architecture on the one hand and of the machine age on the other. Modern technology appears at Savoye as a pure rendition of Le Corbusier's Five Points of a new architecture based on the potentials of the reinforced concrete frame. The entire major volume is raised on pilotis, sheathed by simple planes disengaged from the columns within. A single, elemental strip window dominates each of the four facades. The free plan culminates in the roof terrace. Le Corbusier viewed this pure villa as an object-type , the ultimately refined, standardized dwelling for the elite.
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