TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jenkins,David
TI  - Unite d'habitation, Marseilles: Le Corbusier 
SN  - 0714827703 (pbk.) :
AV  - NA7863.F82 M375 1993
PY  - 1993///
CY  - London
PB  - Phaidon Press
KW  - Le Corbusier,
KW  - Unite d'habitation (Marseilles, France)
KW  - Brutalism (Architecture)
KW  - France
KW  - Marseilles
KW  - Apartment houses
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - The Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles is a key building of the twentieth century, and a seminal work in Le Corbusier's oeuvre. A precursor of buildings in Nantes, Berlin, Briey-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-five years. David Jenkins argues that the Marseilles Unite stands out as a powerful and convincing testament of Le Corbusier's fundamental humanism and his faith in the principles of the Ville Radieuse and the Brutalist medium of rough cast concrete which in other, less able hands, have since been called into question
ER  -