Which architect designed Villa Savoye near Paris?

Le Corbusier designed Villa Savoye near Paris, working with his cousin and collaborator Pierre Jeanneret. The villa stands at Poissy, in the Yvelines department northwest of central Paris, and was built between 1928 and 1931.

Commissioned as a country retreat for Pierre and Eugénie Savoye, the house became one of the defining monuments of twentieth-century modernist architecture. Its design expresses Le Corbusier's “Five Points”: pilotis that raise the building above the ground, a roof garden, an open floor plan, long horizontal windows, and a free façade unrestricted by structural walls.

The villa's ramp guides visitors from the ground level through the interior and up toward the roof terrace. Reinforced concrete made it possible to separate the structure from the arrangement of rooms, while the elevated form allowed the landscape to continue beneath the house. The design was also shaped by the automobile: the Savoyes approached the country house by car, and the ground floor includes a turning area and garage.

Villa Savoye suffered neglect and wartime damage but was restored by the French state. It became a historic monument in 1965 and is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage listing for “The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier.”