Who is the architect of the Villa Savoye?

Who is the architect of the Villa Savoye? The Villa Savoye was designed by Le Corbusier.

Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, designed the modernist villa with his cousin and collaborator Pierre Jeanneret. Built between 1928 and 1931 in Poissy, near Paris, it was commissioned as a country retreat for the Savoye family.

Villa Savoye is one of the clearest demonstrations of Le Corbusier’s “Five Points of a New Architecture”: pilotis elevating the structure, a roof terrace, an open floor plan, ribbon windows, and a free façade. Its ramp guides visitors through the house and up toward the solarium.

The building was not an effortless success: construction problems, including serious leaks, contributed to its limited early use. The French state acquired it in 1958, it became a historic monument in 1965, and it was restored between 1985 and 1997. In 2016, it joined UNESCO’s World Heritage listing for Le Corbusier’s work.