1929 – Villa Savoye, Poissy, France
Situated at Poissy, outside of Paris, the Villa Savoye is one of the most recognisable architectural icons of the International Style.
Situated at Poissy, outside of Paris, the Villa Savoye is one of the most recognisable architectural icons of the International Style.
Instead of organising a competition for the design of their building, the UN decided to commission a collaborative effort among a multinational team of leading architects.
This is a singular work in Le Corbusier’s oeuvre in that it departs from his principles of standardisation and the machine aesthetic,
Based on the modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso.
The last major work of Le Corbusier, it was completed in 2006 forty-one years after his death,