Villa radieuse le corbusier biography
Villa radieuse le corbusier biography.
Unité d'habitation
Marseille, France, 1945-1952
« The origin of this research […] goes back to my visit to the Charterhouse of Ema near Florence, in 1907.
I saw, in this musical landscape of Tuscany, a modern city crowning the hill […] each cell has a view of the plain, and opens onto a small, completely enclosed garden below.
Ville radieuse
I thought I would never be able to come across such a cheerful interpretation of the habitation [...] This "modern city" dates from the fifteenth century. The radiant vision stayed with me forever. »
Commission
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the government’s priority was rehousing, reconstruction and finally redevelopment of the territory.
In Marseille destruction was widespread: the ruins extended over close to 25 acres; some 3,600 buildings had been destroyed and 10,800 partially damaged.
On July 20, 1945, the Minister of Reconstruction and Urbanism Raoul Dautry commissioned Le Corbusier t