Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
Matija Grguric‘s architectural LEGO project modeled the Villa Savoye, designed by the famous French architect Le Corbusier, who pioneered Modern architecture. The Villa Savoye was completed in 1929 and was meant to be a weekend country house. Here, Matija has captured the style and proportions perfectly in this faithful model.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
OMG, beautiful! I’ve always been a fan of the International Style, and this is one of its highlights. Absolutely brilliant work.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Beautiful; it’s stuff like this that makes me want to do architecture. I wonder if the Schröder House could be done?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
^ I’m pretty sure it already has. Maybe by HoMa or Matija himself.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I had to look at this for a minitue b4 I realized it was lego and not real!
June 18th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Tim: Already checked; couldn’t find it.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Really beautiful! Thanks for pointing that… Anyway, Le Corbusier was Swiss, not French (he’s even on 10CHF banknotes => might be an idea to design mosaics of banknotes BTW!)
June 19th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Ah, another Le Corbusier MOC. I wonder why there are so little Le Corbusier MOCs built in LEGO. This archetect build the LEGO way long before the LEGO brick was invented.
I didn’t built the Schröder house (yet), but I’ve built the “Haus 14/15″ from Stuttgart: http://www.holgermatthes.de/bricks_us/lecorbusier.htm
Cheers, HoMa
June 19th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Jan-Albert van Ree did one http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/16514
I knew I’d seen it
June 19th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Lego Rietveld-Schröder house:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/16514
June 19th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
OK. Leigh and I both got eaten by the extremely overzealous SPAM filter thus the double link (and lack of reference to HoMa’s post). I’m beginning to get very sick of that SPAM filter.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
@Leigh & Gambort: Gah! :-( Wish I could do more than comb through the spam queue, but it’s a WordPress plugin (Akismet) over which I have very little control. I’m getting annoyed too, but it’s better than getting hundreds of spam comments, I guess. Sigh…
June 19th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
^ I know it’s needed and there’s little we can do but I’m peeved and rather confused at it. Whatever upgrade they added recently obviously had some bugs to iron out.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
^ Absolutely agreed. Pleh, I say. Pleh.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:02 am
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Maybe it would be possible to have registered users whose comments are immune to the spam filter?
June 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Well, he may have pioneered modern architecture, but this was one of his greatest failures. It only looked like it worked. He only avoided getting sued because the second world war broke out.
Brilliant model anyway.
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 am
La Villa Savoye de Le Corbusier en LEGO…
Réalisée par Matija Grguric. En savoir plus chez Brothers Brick.com…
September 17th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
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