Le Corbusier : les quartiers modernes Frugès = the quartiers modernes Frugès / Marylène Ferrand [and others].

Paris : Fondation le Corbusier ; Boston : Birkhaüser Publishers, ©1998.

143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Guides Le Corbusier

In 1923/24, Henry Fruges - an industrialist from Bordeaux decided to commission Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret with a "small workers' housing estate" in Lege and a garden city in Pessac, comprising 130 to 150 houses and shops. The construction of these two housing schemes between 1924 and 1926 fitted neatly into the architects' research on the machine a habiter and standardisation. Lege and Pessac thus acted as a laboratory for gauging the public's opinion with regards to applying standardisation and mass-production techniques to housing estates. This quest for a standard plan also induced exploratory study on "a new plan for the city" and it is in this respect that Pessac stands unique among Le Corbusier's oeuvres.

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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Critique et interprétation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Le Corbusier, (1887-1965) Critique et interprétation.
Quartiers modernes Frugès (Pessac, France)
Working class Dwellings France Pessac.
Travailleurs Habitations France Paris Pessac.
Travailleurs Habitations France Pessac.
Buildings
Working class Dwellings
Architects France 20th century.
Architecture domestique France Pessac (Gironde)
Pessac (France) Buildings, structures, etc.
Pessac (France) Constructions.
France Pessac
Pessac (Gironde) Architecture.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Ferrand, Marylène.
Guides Le Corbusier.

Quartiers modernes Frugès

Location: Library main 201108
Call No.: NA44.L433.25 Q3 1998
Status: Available