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“in my career …I have devoted myself to one thing above all else, the housing of human beings.” 1 The Radiant City and Other Dreams 2. (Previous page) A vision of life in ‘A Contemporary City’, 1922.
“The theme of the Unité d’habitation first came to mind during my first visit to the Chartreuse of Ema in Tuscany in 1907. It appeared in my plans at the Salon d’Automne in 1922: a contemporary town for 3 million inhabitants, ‘les Immeubles Villas’and again at the Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau in 1925. It did not cease to haunt me throughout all the projects on which I worked so indefatigably during the next 30 years...” 2 To understand the concept of the ‘Unité d’habitation’, and its importance in Le Corbusier’s career, one must first trace the long history of its development. For the ‘Unités’ may well be considered the most important constructed works of Le Corbusier, simply because they bring together in the one unified design, the greatest sum of the social and architectural ideologies he had developed through out the course of his career. But this history was not only important to the architect’s personal development, for it is also the many years that Le Corbusier spent publicising his ideas that allowed him to gain such an astoundingly religious following through out the world. For with out the thirty or so years 3 that he spent sounding out his ideas with the public before hand, it is highly unlikely that the ‘Unités’ would have survived and gone on to hold such a strong and passionate group of supporters as they do today. This Chapter says nothing new, and nor does it attempt to. It’s purpose in this thesis is simply to provide the reader with a base for understanding the development of the ‘Unité d’habitation’ design, and the ideologies that Le Corbiser attempted to express through it. 25 26 It would be impossible, however, to include all of the projects, writings and influences that lead up to the design of the ‘Unités’, as this would provide a whole new thesis in itself. 4 This chapter is instead to be considered more as a brief history of Le Corbusier’s ideas that culminated in the ‘Unités’, drawing from a variety of sources (as credited in the notes). It divides Le Corbusier’s ideas into the three levels upon which he considered the human habitat – firstly, as the city, secondly as the apartment /housing block, and thirdly as the individual home. For it is from each of these three levels that the ‘Unité d’habitation’ was ultimately derived.
Page 1: Isabelle Toland B Sc. (Arch) Hons.
Page 4 and 5: Acknowledgements In writing this th
Page 6 and 7: Preface Observations and Visitation
Page 8 and 9: Introduction Singular / Plural The
Page 10 and 11: 1. Dynamiting a grand barre on the
Page 12 and 13: and the CIAM (Congrès Internationa
Page 16 and 17: The City Although during his format
Page 18 and 19: 4. A sketch of the centre of Paris,
Page 20 and 21: Le Corbusier attributed certain fea
Page 22 and 23: From the design of ‘Immeubles-Vil
Page 24 and 25: 12. Immeuble Locatif à la Molitor,
Page 26 and 27: 1 Le Corbusier, The Marseilles Bloc
Page 28 and 29: 23 The translation given in Boesige
Page 30 and 31: 42 The findings of the CIAM at this
Page 32 and 33: Soleil, espace, verdure... The ‘U
Page 34 and 35: Building Blocks 20. The ‘Modulor
Page 36 and 37: Industrial Production The use of
Page 38 and 39: An Individual Home Independence 27.
Page 40 and 41: 31. The ‘Unité d’habitation’
Page 42 and 43: 35. A ‘brise-soleil’ on the fac
Page 44 and 45: 39. A classroom of the rooftop pre-
Page 46 and 47: 22 As the majority of apartments st
Page 48 and 49: 4 Unités in France / 4 Dreams + Re
Page 50 and 51: Atlantic Ocean 43. Location of the
Page 52 and 53: I. M.MI - Unité Marseille The ‘U
Page 54 and 55: Even before the completion of its c
Page 56 and 57: 50. Looking down a section of the c
Page 58 and 59: 55. View from the balcony of an apa
Page 60 and 61: I.4 Facilities The ‘Unité’ in
Page 62 and 63: The Offices Also situated on the mi
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The pool, which had been left crack
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75. The roof terrace overrun by chi
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of the building maintenance. It was
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II. N RE - Unité Rezé-les-Nantes
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78. The polychromatic painted ‘lo
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II.3 Context 83-84. The ‘Unité d
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The Parkland The Entry Foyer The pa
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The Rooftop School 91-92. Windows l
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The strength of the building co-ope
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were located independently, on a ne
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III.1 History The ‘Unité’ in B
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But the region was in serious econo
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101-102. Restored interiors of apar
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The Parkland An Espace Le Corbusier
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18 Ibid. 19 Ibid., See also article
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IV. FIR. UN - Unité Firminy-Vert
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And this was not the only problem h
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The residents of the ‘Unité’ h
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120. Looking up to the ‘Unité’
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A more vegetated area of the parkla
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The Roof Terrace 131-132. The resur
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1 Ragot, Gilles + Dion, Mathilde Le
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them over the past years. 32 One of
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But the ‘Unité’ of Firminy-Ver
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Appendix CHA - Unité Berlin-Charlo
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Illustration Acknowledgements 1. T
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Bibliography Affron, Matthew + Antl
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Sbriglio, Jacques, (trans. Sarah Pa
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