Unite D'Habitation: Le Corbusier (Architecture in Detail)
by David Jenkins
Architecture in Detail, Phaidon Press
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The Units d'Habitation at Marseilles is a key building of the twentieth century, and a seminal work in Le Corbusier's portfolio. A precursor of buildings in Nantes, Berlin, Breiy en Foret and Firminy, it established, in built form, Le Corbusier's ideas of public housing that had existed only on paper for more than twenty years. David Jenkins argues that the Marseilles Units stands out as a powerful and convincing testament of Le Corbusier's faith in the principles of the Ville Radieuse and show more the Brutalist medium of rough cast concrete which in other, less able hands, have since been called into question. show lessTags
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David Jenkins is also the author of Training Speed and Endurance. He is also a sports scientists and has a Ph.D. in exercise physiology. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Nonfiction, Home & Garden, Art & Design, Tween
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- 728.3140944912 — Arts & recreation Architecture Residential and related buildings Specific kinds of conventional housing Multiple dwellings Apartments, flats standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Europe
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- NA7863 .F82 .M375 — Fine Arts 2599.5-2599.9 Architectural criticism Architecture Special classes of buildings Classed by use Domestic architecture. Houses. Dwellings
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