The residential dwelling seen in the picture is located in Poissy, a small commune outside of Paris, France. It is one of the most significant contributions to modern architecture in the 20th century. It is called the Villa Savoye by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, (Le Corbusier). It is in the International Style of architecture and was completed in 1929. The Villa Savoye is a modern take on a French country house; it celebrates and reacts to society's new machine age.

Critics have publicly noted that this house established Le Corbusier’s career as an architect. His principles of the International Style were to become one of the most important architectural precedents in history. Villa Savoye’s detachment from its physical context caused its design to be contextually integrated into the mechanistic and industrial context of new early 20th century architecture, conceptually defining the house as a mechanized entity.

Le Corbusier was famous for stating, “The house is a machine for living.” This statement was not simply translated into the design of a human scaled assembly line; rather the design took on innovative qualities and advances found in industrialization and consequences related to ‎urban efficiency. Later, Le Corbusier directly called his mechanized design, “The Five Points” of architecture. It is a list of prescribed elements to be incorporated into any architectural structure in the International Style.

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