- Unlike Le Corbusier’s other projects, Unité d’Habitation was not a singular brief, but instead can rather be seen as a building typology created by Le Corbusier.
- With its proportions, chunky pilotis and interior streets, Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation is arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time.
- Unité d'Habitation. Le Corbusier's first Unité d'Habitation is arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time.
- It was in this precarious context that Le Corbusier was commissioned to design the Unité d’Habitation.
- Corbusier himself built four more Unité d’Habitations in Europe. The Rough concrete he used ‘béton brut’ became the signature of the style known as Brutalism.
- The Unité d'Habitation of Firminy-Vert is a residential building located in Firminy in the Loire department in France, by the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier...
- The Unité d’Habitation is constructed from reinforced roughcast concrete, which was the least costly in post-war Europe.
- After the Second World War, people have faced a lack of housing. Le Corbusier designed the Unité d’Habitation project to offer a solution to this problem.
- The Unités d'habitation are among the most famous works of Le Corbusier. As part of a larger and more radical approach, these huge housing units have...