1931 · Poissy, France

Villa Savoye

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier's "Five Points" of modern architecture, executed at full scale as a white box on stilts.

• Pilotis lift the volume off the ground; ribbon windows wrap the facade
• Free plan, free facade, roof garden — the modernist manifesto in plaster
• Almost demolished in the 1960s; saved by André Malraux