Tutorial: Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye; Ground Floor Circulation/Teaching Modern Architecture

►An educational design tutorial and spatial analysis of Villa Savoye's ground floor vestibule, designed by Le Corbusier in Poissy, France. The video analyzes how Le Corbusier manages the spatial experience and circulation of the architecture's entry with a small table and guides the visitor towards the circulation ramp—the canonical component of Le Corbusier's architectural promenade.

The tutorial is intended to teach architectural students fundamental lessons about managing spatial experience, suggesting methodologies for analyzing, interpreting and understanding space. The analysis proposes a general rule about spatial "guidance": typically, instead of providing the visitor with total freedom, or no freedom at all, the architect should aim to gently "guide" the visitor with subtle suggestions.

Villa Savoye is considered a masterpiece of modern architecture, and the definitive statement of Le Corbusier's "Five Points of Architecture" (pilotis, roof garden, free plan, free facade, ribbon window) and his manifesto to modernism, "Towards An Architecture" (also known as "Towards A New Architecture"). Villa Savoye also features Le Corbusier's most definitive example of his "architectural promenade," a dynamic circulation experience and excellent precedent for an architecture of "motion."

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