Villa Savoye
In the twenties,People still had to settle for the construction of detached houses. One of these, which has gone down in history as a magnificent example of rationalism Le Corbusier, the Villa Savoye (1928-1929, Le Possy), an application of home supported by piles, connected with the outside through large windows and interior spaces connected. In the postwar reconstruction period, Le Corbusier invented a city featuring Living units, modular elements of a new urban development. His idea was to build large apartment buildings equipped with the necessary services to become self-sufficient units and fragmented sleep found a realization in the Unite d’habitation de Marseille (1947-1952). The building was designed as a great framework in which households are embedded, contains three hundred thirty-seven duplex apartments, the seventh and eighth floors are reserved for commercial shops, the terrace is home to several community facilities: gym, running track, theater outdoor, daycare and pool, and the coloring on the front of the niches of the windows and balconies, painted in blue, yellow, red and green, breaks the monotony of concrete. The building soon became known in Marseille as “The crazy house” and was widely questioned. Despite the many shortcomings that the realities of the building revealed, was the new architecture model for a generation of architects and many of their ideas would become customary in the later building. Le Corbusier continued to improve the project throughout its life, although only one Unite d’habitation built in Nantes. Le Corbusier made development plans for many cities, including Paris (1925), Algiers (1931), Barcelona (1932), Stockholm (1933), or Saint-Die (1945).
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