Lived-In Architecture Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited

Name: Lived-In Architecture Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited
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ISBN: 9780262020831

ISBN-10: 0262020831

ISBN-13: 9780262020831

Edition: N/A

Authors: Philippe Boudon

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In the mid-1920s, at Pessac near Bordeaux, Le Corbusier built his first large-scale project, the Quartiers Modernes Fruges, which consisted of some 70 housing units. Acting simultaneously as architect and town planner, and taking account of the prevailing social and economic factors, he wished to provide people with low-cost, predetermined, homogeneous cubist structures -- machines to live in or empty containers that their presence alone would activate and fulfill.This book describes what happened as people moved in and proceeded to live their lives over, around, and against the architecture and the architect's designs for their behavior. It reviews the history of the project, describes…

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Publisher: MIT Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200