• Unlike Le Corbusier’s other projects, Unité dHabitation was not a singular brief, but instead can rather be seen as a building typology created by Le Corbusier.
  • After the Second World War, people have faced a lack of housing. Le Corbusier designed the Unité dHabitation project to offer a solution to this problem.
  • The Unite dhabitation of Marseille, the first commission received by Le Corbusier from the French State, is one of his most iconic projects and one of the basic...
  • Corbusier himself built four more Unité dHabitations in Europe. The Rough concrete he used ‘béton brut’ became the signature of the style known as Brutalism.
  • 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 dHabitation, 18-story residential block in Marseille, France, that expressed Le Corbusier’s ideal of urban family lodging.
  • Unité dHabitation. Le Corbusier. 1947-1952, France. ... 1300 Westway Drive, Sarasota, Florida, USA By appointment only Website. Unité dHabitation.
  • Inaugurated in 1952, the Unité d'Habitation combines 330 dwellings, collective and commercial spaces, and an innovative roof terrace.
  • Despite its functionalist name, his first “Unité dhabitation de grandeur conforme” (or: “housing unit of standard size”) was designed to start an inspiring new...