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Villa Savoye (Le Corbusier, 1928-1931; first published 1929). Never quite my favorite of the great modernist houses, it still is so complete and dramatic a statement that it's hard not to just leave matters at "what can you even say about this one?" As an archi-tourist attraction, it's also undermined by the absence of furnishings and household objects, which exaggerates the impression of an aseptic, polished box of air. Only those soft wall colors, the green of the landscape, and (on this occasion) the remains of a children's-group craft activity, remind you that for Corbu as for many of his ilk, the machine-age jewelbox was meant to be joined with textured, polychromatic, and tactile materials - often handicraft ones.
Without that, you have the raw spaces, the views, the alien object of the building itself, and a smattering of memorably idiosyncratic and not-at-all functionalist quirks. That's a lot to love! But if I'm looking for my favorite house of this period (as opposed to my "most important" house, or whatever), I might think first of Fallingwater, Mairea, Müller, Rietveld-Schröder, E-1027, or dear old Schminke. If you ask me, they should fill this thing back up with period-appropriate stuff and see what it does.
Apple computer store ceiling in San Francisco. Photoshopped- track lighting in the middle of the ceiling.