Le Corbusier - L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles: et les autres Unités d'habitation à Rezé-les-Nantes, Berlin, Briey en Forêt et Firminy / and the four other unité blocks

by Jacques Sbriglio

Overview

the Unité in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of controversial debate, the Unité in Marseille continues to attract numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the latest addition to Birkhäuser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his Unités in Rezé-les-Nantes, Briey en Forêt, Firminy and Berlin. The author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783764367183
Publisher:	Birkhäuser
Publication date:	07/02/2004
Series:	Le Corbusier Guides (engl./franz.) Series
Edition description:	Bilingual, French/English
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	4.72(w) x 8.66(h) x 0.02(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Foreword	6
	Orientation Guide	8
	Promenade architecturale	10
	The backdrop of Marseilles	36
	A brief outline of the Unite d'Habitation	38
	Access	40
	The grounds	43
	The facades	50
	Colour scheme of the facades	57
	The pilotis	58
	The "cap"	62
	The entrance foyer	63
	The raised "artificial ground"	68
	The interior streets	69
	The apartment types	74
	Upper E apartment	74
	Lower E apartment	99
	The south-facing apartments	100
	The other apartments	101
	Communal service areas	101
	Other areas	105
	History of the Project	118
	Background	120
	The beginnings of the scheme	121
	Le Corbusier in Marseilles	131
	The commission	131
	The architectural team	136
	Four sites for one plan	139
	The second site	142
	The third site	145
	The fourth site	145
	The Modulor and Grandeur Conforme	148
	From architectural design to building	149
	A bottle-rack structure	152
	The foundations and structural frame	153
	Prefabricated components	156
	Finishing works	158
	Technical equipment	160
	Building contractors	163
	The construction phase	163
	1949 prototype apartment	170
	The last touches	172
	Inauguration	174
	Hand-over	178
	Half a century on	178
	Post-Marseilles - the four other unite blocks	180
	Unite d'Habitation in Reze (1953-1955)	184
	Unite d'Habitation in Berlin (1957)	197
	Unite d'Habitation in Briey en Foret (1956-1963)	211
	Unite d'Habitation in Firminy (1959-1967)	218
	Conclusion	225
	Notes	231
	Chronology	236
	Technical Data	239
	Team Members	241
	List of Contractors	241
	Addresses	243
	Bibliography	243