It is worth considering the innovations that the house represents: The elevations get animated by the interplay of light and shade, solid and void, glimpses of the interior carefully framed by the external enclosure.” This is a powerful expression of an elevated primitive shape with openings that reveal glimpses of the interior. The house reveals itself all at once as a grand white box, hovering on pilotis. Past the entrance gate, the visitor’s vision is blocked by trees. “Le Corbusier conceived the approach towards the house to be best experienced by a car passenger. Rather the design impetus was to preserve the natural surroundings and enhance the experience of arrival by utilising the trees to screen the view of the house on approach to increase the drama of its revelation. Perhaps it is a misnomer that the Villa was situated within a garden (in the traditional sense) I definitely would vote to live in the Villa Savoye. Post navigation ← Could Hemel Hempsted's Jellicoe Water Gardens be managed by volunteers? Sugar may be the world's worst poison – so the EU subsidises sugar growers through its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) → This entry was posted in Garden Design, garden history on 28th August 2011 by Tom Turner. But which of them to you think had the ‘correct’ attitude to gardens? And which house would you rather live in? From a theoretical standpoint, it does not seem the right thing to have done. This would have made it easy for Gwynne to lay a Corbusian lawn but, over the many years he enjoyed his beautiful house, Gwynne gave much attention to making what is best described as a classic example of the Gardenesque Style. The Homewood was designed shortly before the Second World War and its garden was dug up during the war to make space for growing vegetables. Many of Corb’s British admirers shared his views and gave little attention to gardens.
It has an attractive roof terrace but is plain old grass at ground level.
He was not an enthusiast for gardens, as can be seen from the Villa Savoye. Le Corbusier cared deeply about greenspace but liked to view if from afar and above. Gardens at Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Patrick Gwynne's Homewood
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