A Few Facts About Villa Savoye - 1931 - Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret - Accidental Learning
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Have you ever walked into a space and just felt so inspired that it made you almost rethink everything in your life? That’s how I felt walking into Villa Savoye (pronounced saavwa). I remember studying it in-depth whilst at architecture school in Brisvegas and although I fell in love with it then, now, being much older and having a career in architecture and interiors behind me it has inspired me EVEN more.
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what a beautiful masterpiece! im an archi student studying in New Zealand orginally from chandigarh ; city designed by Le Corbusier! just amazing! Thanks for the great video!
You are so lucky Manraj!! Chandigarh was a place I studied in 4th year architecture (I had to do all the technical drawings and analyse 3 main sections of it). It is truly an amazing place. Enjoy every second of stunning architecture and in such an amazing place like NZ too! You're very blessed. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch my video and for commenting.
Very useful video for students to see.
Glad you think so! Thank you very much for watching!
This house, like the Farnsworth House, the Glass House, and Maison Bordeaux - was a major, major problem child. It leaked from day 1 - welcome to flat roofs (Mies van der Rohe joked Farnsworth was a 2-bucket house, Philip Johnson said his Glass House was a 4-bucket... one in each corner). The white surfaces erode and stain hideously from rainwater - what you get when you don't want gutters ruining your aesthetic purity. Cracks appeared everywhere, it's concrete. Water loves cracks. When she shifts and cracks one of those large windows... where do you go? This is from a letter the Savoyes sent to Le Corbusier (one of many): "It is urgent that you make [this house] habitable. I would hope it will not be necessary to have recourse to legal means."
From another: "It is still raining on our garage."
And another: "It is raining in the hall, it’s raining on the ramp and the wall of the garage is absolutely soaked [….] it’s still raining in my bathroom, which floods in bad weather, as the water comes in through the skylight. The gardener’s walls are also wet through."
Earlier they had sent him another one complaining about the skylight saying that it
"makes terrible noise […] which prevents us from sleeping during bad weather."
The Savoyes were the only ones to live in it, and they abandoned it after WW2, they did not have the money for its upkeep and I suspect they regretted everything about it. Villa Savoye is "important" but so many of these "important" houses are the vanity projects of urban architects w/ outsized egos who could care less about tried-and-true means when it comes to their grand statements. This house was up for demolition more than once. It looks as it does now only because the nation of France is the new tenant and footed the bill for restoration and upkeep. I encourage you to google pics of it before they made that call. This house, aesthetically, is a little minimalist jewel. But we don't live in aesthetics alone. That hideous concrete-tiled and walled "garden" area belongs in a quadrangle in the city, not in a country house. It's -2 Celsius in Poissy right now... Villa Savoye has a tiny fireplace in the living room. It's cold and damp because of all that glazing. Mind you, Le Corbusier was marketing himself as the one who believed that architecture had a potential to increase health and well-being - we hear alot of that utopian crap from superstar architects to this day, Rem Koolhaas a prime example.
She also went way over budget, as these "visionary" projects always do, and cost a million Francs in the end (and right before a global financial meltdown). This is only half the project too, the other half could not be realized due to costs.
So my recommendation to you - if you're an architect - is build the Savoyes the house they would've wanted.
There were wild things on the drawing boards of architects of that era, the tough part was finding the client who would commit. You've got to tell them- you're buying into the future, you're buying into healing architecture, architecture that makes people better people blah blah.
Marcel Breuer's Sea Lane House in West Sussex is a real-world example that happened 4 years after Villa Savoye. This is a design for a beach house in California around the same time. Modernism was in the air everywhere.
www.architecture.com/image-library/ribapix/image-information/poster/design-for-a-beach-house-california-for-rupert-r-ryan/posterid/RIBA3085.html
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This house looks so cool! Too bad I’m too poor to live anywhere except under a bridge 🤩
But you're cool and happy,that's all that matters :-) x
wow amazing
love it and to think it was designed in 1931
I know!! If you look at all the 1930's buildings that people live in! This was invented in their brains before that! #respect :-)
Thank-you
Pleasure!