One of my good friends, Phil, from design school had a chance to visit Villa Savoye. Above are some photos he had taken. I find it fitting that he visited Villa Savoye by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, when majority of our design schooling and skills underly heavily on the Swiss and the International Typographic Style. Phils thoughts are that "Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye is simply amazing. It's pretty much an unreal space that you can frame a composition here, and then turn around to effortlessly frame another. Then you step back a bit to realize every little nook, cranny and column just make perfect sense. Brilliant design is always as equally functional!"
The Villa Savoye was build circa 1929. The house was emblematic of Le Corbusier work in that it addressed "The Five Points", his basic tenets of a new aesthetic of architecture. For further details on the Villa Savoye and Le Corbusier's work click here.
