Le Corbusier's white box on slender columns at Poissy outside Paris, completed in 1931, the built manifesto of his five points of a new architecture: pilotis, the free plan, the free facade, ribbon windows and the roof garden. It is the canonical house of the modern movement and a World Heritage listed work.
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Associated With
Villa Savoye is the fullest built demonstration of all five points together.
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Designed By
With his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret.
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Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
A canonical work of the 1932 exhibition's International Style and of the wider modern movement.
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Uses Element
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In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Villa Savoye (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEntity description and the lead of the Wikipedia articleQuote, Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
Le Corbusier's white box on slender columns at Poissy outside Paris, completed in 1931, the built manifesto of his five points of a new architecture: pilotis, the free plan, the free facade, ribbon windows and the roof garden. It is the canonical house of the modern movement and a World Heritage listed work.
2. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.britannica.com/place/Villa-Savoye, curated coverage excerpt (no dedicated article)
...famous of his houses, the Villa Savoye at Poissy, France (1929-31). The building's principal block was raised one story above the ground on pilotis (heavy reinforced-concrete columns); floors were cantilevered to permit long strip windows; and space was molded plastically and made to flow horizontally, vertically, and diagonally until, on...
- In Style: International Style
- In Style: Modernist Architecture
- Designed By: Le Corbusier
- Uses Element: Reinforced Concrete
- Associated With: The Five Points of Architecture
View the Source 3. Wikidata: Villa Savoye
- Wikidata Q940746, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q940746, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the Source4. Villa Savoye (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata height (P2048) statement: 9.4Quote, Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 9.4
Wikidata item Q940746, property P2048 (height): 9.4 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
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