• In the latest of the AJ’s ongoing series looking at influential housing plans, Keith Williams chooses Le Corbusier’s Unité dHabitation in Marseilles.
  • The Unité d'Habitation - "Cité Radieuse" is ranked #5 most popular Marsilya destination.
  • Rooftop of Unité dHabitation in Marseilles, ‘Cité Radieuse’ of Le Corbusier, Tadao Ando, Brutalist architecture, Swimming pool in centre.
  • Post-war overcrowding in east Marseille called for desperate measures and Le Corbusier's grand scheme, known as the Unité d'Habitation, was to push thousands...
  • Unite dhabitation in Marseille was the first of the new housing series designed by Le Corbusier across Europe to alleviate the problems that faced those who...
  • In fact, this dangerous critical attitude is quashed once one recognises that l' Unite d' habitation is the intermediate link in the theoretical chain which...
  • A case study examining the Unite D'Habitation in Marseilles through a critical analysis of its historic context, building functions and the urbanism it attempts…