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Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye
25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Order number: 712
Le Corbusier famously called his private houses `machines à habiter,' or machines to be lived in. Perhaps he wanted to imply that they were so different from other houses that they constituted a new form altogether. Certainly that is what we are likely to feel when we approach his Villa Savoye near Paris, finished in 1930. The house is empty now, but stands as one of the most impressive monuments to Le Corbusier's ideas about architecture and the modern movement in general. A low square box resting on `stilts' of reinforced concrete, it reveals his interest in ocean liners and his preoccupation with abstract `space blocks.' Photographs of the house when occupied give some idea of what it was like to live in - not `mechanized living,' but a `design for living.'
Le Corbusier Villa Savoye
Credits -
Director
Nick Levinson
Presenter/Writer
Tim Benton
Open University/BBC
