Cité Frugès de Pessac
| Quartiers Modernes Frugès | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Address | Pessac, France |
| Completed | 1924 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Le Corbusier |
Quartiers Modernes Frugès is a housing development located in Pessac, France. It was designed by noted architect Le Corbusier as both an architect and a town planner.[1] It contained some 70 housing units.
History
The building was built as experimental housing for workers.
Design and construction
Le Corbusier took into account prevailing social and economic factors, and was determined to build the plan to provide people with low-cost, predetermined, homogeneous cubist structures.
The project originated in 1920 with 10 houses built at Lege, near Pessac, for the father of Henry Fruges. Following this initial phase, the project was extended to 200 houses. Only a quarter of this number were built by 1926. L-C painted panels of brown, blue, yellow and jade green in response to the clients request for 'decoration'.[2]
The layout consists of:
A terrace of about 8 three storey houses with roof gardens. Behind them is a terrace of houses connected to each other with a concrete arch which provides a sheltered garden. In the middle of the development are the interlocking houses.[3]
Further reading
- Lived-In Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited by Philippe Boudon
References
- ^ Architecture View - LE CORBUSIER'S HOUSING PROJECT- FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO ENDURE - by Ada Louise Huxtable - NYTimes.com
- ^ Le Corbusier edited by Willy Boesiger, p.26.
- ^ personal visit to Pessac in 1970s