“Cubist Architecture: The Villa Savoye” presents cubist principles of Le Corbusier’s 1928-31 house: the conceptual modernity of a “machine to live in,” light coming from multiple sources that are not readily identifiable, and the “free plan” that brings a playful inside/outside ambiguity. Moving up and around the ramp is like walking into an architectural collage, where the visitor can participate at his leisure in the cubist experience.
For a more detailed analysis, please see also by May Peyron Spangler, "Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art" (New York: Peter Lang, 2019).
25 ноя 2017
