Le Corbusier - United Habitation, Marseilles, France - Printable Version

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Le Corbusier - United Habitation, Marseilles, France - reena - 08-27-2014

United Habitation, Marseilles, France
The building is based on le modular "System of Proportion" designed by Le Corbusier.

After World War II, the need for housing was at an unprecedented high. In 1947, Europe was still feeling the effects of the Second World War, when Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a multi-family residential housing project for the people of Marseille that were dislocated after the bombings on France. Completed in 1952, the Unite d’ Habitation was the first of a new housing project series for Le Corbusier that focused on communal living for all the inhabitants to shop, play, live, and come together in a “vertical garden city.”

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