The Villa Savoye and the modernist historic monument

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 68-89

  Murphy, Kevin D ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/991812     Document Type: Review

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1. Translated as The Royal Way (1935); quoted in E. H. Gombrich, "André Malraux and the Crisis of Expressionism, " Burlington Magazine 46 (1954): 375.
2. Tim Benton, "Six Houses" in Le Corbusier, Architect of the Century, exhibition catalogue ([London], 1987), 63-64;
3. Tim Benton, "Villa Savoye and the Architects' Practice, " in LeCorbusier. Villa Savoye and Other Buildings and Projects, 1929-1930 (New Yorkand London, 1984), ix-xxii.
4. For a chronological account of the building's history, including therestorations, see Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier: La Villa Savoye / The Villa Savoye (Paris and Basel, 1999).
5. Colin Rowe, "The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio and LeCorbusier Compared, " Architectural Review 101 (1947): 101-104;
6. reprinted in Colin Rowe, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1976), 1-27.
7. Beatriz Colomina, "The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism, " in Beatriz Colomina, ed., Sexuality and Space (New York, 1992).
8. See also Beatriz Colomina, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1994).
9. Alice Friedman's Women and the Making of the Modern House (New York, 1998) is exemplary of recent feminist scholarship that considers the success ofmodern domestic architecture from a functional point of view.
10. Le Corbusier, Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret, oeuvre complète de1929-1934 (1935), 4th ed. (Zurich, 1946), 24.
11. Although not directly related to the Villa Savoye, Brian Brace Taylor's, Le Corbusier, The City of Refuge, Paris 1929/33 (Chicago and London, 1987) is animportant materialist study that considers the ideological foundations of oneof the architect's residential projects of the same period.
12. Pierre Nora, ed., Les lieux de mémoire, 7 vols. (Paris, 1984-1992);
13. idem, "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire, " trans. Marc Roudebush, Representations 26 (1989): 7-25.
14. Françoise Choay, L'allégorie du patrimoine (Paris, 1992), 98.
15. Many U.S. architecture critics and historians covered the bombardment of France. See, for example, Barr Ferree, "War Books of the Cathedrals I:Reims, " Architectural Record 43 (1918): 90,
16. Ralph Adams Cram, "Reims Cathedral, " Yale Review, n.s. 8(1918): 34-53.
17. Medieval architectural historian Arthur Kingsley Porter also publishedextensively on the destruction of Reims, as my student Martin Perschler hasdiscussed in his unpublished paper "Arthur Kingley Porter, Reims Cathedral, and the War, " University of Virginia Architectural History Symposium, 1997.
18. Jean-Marc Blanchecotte, "Les Bâtiments de Le Corbusier dansles Hauts-de-Seine, conservation et restauration au xxe siècle, " in La conservation de l'oeuvre construite de Le Corbusier (Paris, c. 1990), 29.
19. The first work by Le Corbusier to be listed was the Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles in 1964; Bernard Toulier, Architecture et patrimoinedu xxe siècle en France (Paris, 1999), 19-23.
20. Quoted in Benton, "Villa Savoye and the Architects' Practice, "xix.
21. Olivier Siou, "Les Heures Claires, histoire de la Villa Savoye, " Chronos 19 (1988-1989): 8.
22. Arthur Drexler, Villa Savoye: Destruction by Neglect, 2-24 July 1966, wall label, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 66.12.1. I would like to thank Bevin Howard for her assistance in researching this exhibition.
23. "Stompin on the Savoie, " Time, 23 March 1959, p. 54.
24. "Machine for Living, " Historic Preservation 11 (1959): 77-78.
25. Jean-Louis Loubet, Citroën, Peugeot, Renault et les autres: histoiredes stratégies d'entreprises (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1999), 29, 74-76.
26. Siou, "Les Heures Claires, " 8-9.
27. Édith Aujame, "Compte rendu de la visite à la Villa Savoye le 11 juin 1960, " Fondation Le Corbusier (hereafter FLC) H1-12-305.
28. See Terence Riley and Joseph Abram, eds., The Filter of Reason, Work of Paul Nelson (New York, 1990).
29. "L'Affaire Savoye, " Architectural Forum 110 (1959): 107.
30. Benton, "Villa Savoye and the Architects' Practice, " ix-xi (seen. 3).
31. William J. R. Curtis, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms (London, 1986), 98.
32. On the change in Le Corbusier's aesthetic, see Romy Golan, Modernity and Nostalgia, Art and Politics in France Between the Wars (New Haven and London, 1995), 74-75.
33. André Chastel's article appeared in the 27 March 1959 issue of LeMonde, Pevsner's in the March 1959 issue of Architectural Review. See "Lapénible affaire de la Villa Savoye, " Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 82(1959): vii.
34. Le Corbusier to Bernard Anthonioz, 11 April 1960, FLC H1-12-301.Anthonioz was a member of Malraux's cabinet from 1959, and head of the Servicede la création artistique (1962-1979); see Bernard Anthonioz, "Lepari de la création contemporaine, " and "Hommage de Pierre Moinot à Bernard Anthonioz, " both in Girard and Gentil, eds., Lesaffaires culturelles (see n. 24).
35. J. Barrot, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, 22 February 1963, FLC H1-12-281.
36. Le Corbusier, "Note concernant la Villa Savoye, " 12 May 1965, FLC H1-12-291.
37. James Stirling compared the deteriorated conditions of the Villa Stein at Garches and the Villa Savoye in 1955: "As with the still deserted Poissy, the deterioration at Garches was only skin-deep; paint decay, broken glass andslight cracks in the rendering; there has been no deterioration to the structurenor any waterproofing failure"; James Stirling, "Garches to Jaoul, " in Carlo Palazzolo and Riccardo Vio, eds., In the Footsteps of LeCorbusier (New York, 1991), 81.
38. Ada Louise Huxtable, "Architectural Giant, " New York Times, 28August 1965, p. 18.
39. Marcel Lods, "Le Corbusier, " Glaces et Verres 194 (1965): 2-8.
40. Malraux's eulogy is reprinted here and in the English translation quotedabove in Le Corbusier, Oeuvres complètes, 5th ed. (1995), 188-190.
41. S. Giedion, "Le Corbusier et l'architecture contemporaine, " 210(see n. 2).
42. "Footnote, " Architectural Forum 125 (1966): 98-99.
43. J[osé] Rafael Moneo, "Una visita a Poissy, " Arquitectura Madrid 7 (1965): 35-41.
44. Drexler, Villa Savoye: Destruction by Neglect, wall label (see n. 17).
45. Mary Anne Staniszewski, The Power of Display, A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern An (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1998), 74-75, 194-195.
46. Tim Benton, "The Era of Great Projects, " in Le Corbusier, Architect of the Century, 168 (see n. 3).
47. Walter McQuade, "Architecture, " The Nation, 16 February 1963, clipping in the FLC, H1-12-312.
48. See, for example, "Salvation of the Savoye, " Progressive Architecture 47 (1966): 73;
49. "La Villa Savoye di Le Corbusier: Come era e come e, " Domus 441(1966): 5;
50. "Die Villa Savoye im Museum of Modern Art, " Deutsche Bauzeitung10 (1966): 821.
51. Jean-Louis Veret, "Passé, présents, futurs de la Villa Savoye, " in La conservation de l'oeuvre construite de Le Corbusier (Paris, c.1990), 114;
52. Martin Filler, "Le Corbusier's True Colors, " House and Garden159 (1981): 175-176, 222-226;
53. Siou, "Les Heures Claires, " 10 (see n. 16).
54. Panayotis Tournikiotis, The Historiography of Modern Architecture(Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1999), 25, 45-47, 105-109, 148-152, emphasispresent in the original.
55. Toulier, Architecture et patrimoine, 22 (see n. 14).
56. Tim Benton, The Villas of Le Corbusier, 1920-1930: with photographs inthe Lucien Hervé collection (New Haven and London, 1987).
57. James Stirling, "Ronchamp: Le Corbusier's Chapel and the Crisis of Rationalism, " Architectural Review 119 (1956): 155-161;
58. reprinted in Peter Serenyi, ed., Le Corbusier in Perspective (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1975), 64-67.
59. "Le Corbusier, " Time, 5 May 1961.
60. Adrian Forty, "Le Corbusier's British Reputation, " LeCorbusier, Architect of the Century, 39 (see n. 3).
61. "L'hommage de Paris et du gouvernement à Charles LeCorbusier, " Le Monde, 3 September 1965, p. 6.
62. Philippe Boudon, Lived-in Architecture, Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited(1969), trans. Gerald Onn (Cambridge, Mass., 1972).
63. Joseph Abram, "Political Will and the Cultural Identity Crisis in Late-Twentieth-Century French Architecture, " in Premises, Invested Spacesin Visual Arts, Architecture, & Design from France: 1958-1998, exhibitioncatalogue (New York, 1998), 334-342. Abram here points out the historicalsignificance of Boudon's study.
64. Malraux writes, "L'amateur d'alors [referring the period prior to1900] connut les toiles comme nous avons connu les mosaïques et les vitrauxjusqu'à la guerre de 1940 . . ."; Le musée imaginaire(1947); 3rd ed. (Paris, 1965), 11;
65. Lebovics, Mona Lisa's Escort, 105.
66. André Holleaux, "The Administration of Culture, " trans.Robert Speaight, in Martine de Courcel, ed., Malraux, Life and Work (London, 1976);
67. Choay, L'allégorie du patrimoine, 173-174 (see n. 10).
68. Pierre Cabanne, Le pouvoir culturel sous la Ve République (Paris, 1981), 70-73, 92-95.
69. Holleaux, "Administration of Culture, " 93.
70. Tim Benton, "Historic Architecture: Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, Monument of the Modern Movement at Poissy, " Architectural Digest, May 1986, pp. 182-187, 232;
71. Filler, "Le Corbusier's True Colors, " 222 (see n. 70).
72. Veret, "Passé, présents, futurs de la Villa Savoye, " 115-116 (see n. 70).
73. Quoted in Paul Léon, La vie des monuments français, destruction, restauration (Paris, 1951), 351-353.