Villa Savoye--page 7 (of nine pages)
Views of the terrace

Le Corbusier
1929-30





In the courtyard looking back to the first floor living room

The large glazed area of the living room creates an interpenetration of indoor/outdoor space just as the unglazed "windows" and roofless "walls" in the courtyard allude to interior spaces. The terrace is a kind of open-air living room.
 
 

The opposite end of the courtyard

The concrete table is attached to a column just as the smaller table was attached to the column in the vestibule on the ground floor.
 
Planters embedded in the floor make this a terrace garden.
 
 


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Works Cited and Consulted:
Guillemette Morel-Journel, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye. Paris: Centre des monuments nationaux. Monum, Éditions du Patrimoine, 1998.
Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier: La Villa Savoye. Paris: Fondation Le Corbusier, 1999.

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