Cité Frugès de Pessac
| Cité Frugès de Pessac | |
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 Main street of the Cité Frugès | |
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| General information | |
| Address | Pessac, France |
| Completed | 1926 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Le Corbusier |
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| Official name | Cité Frugès de Pessac |
| Criteria | Cultural: i, ii, vi |
| Reference | 1321-003 |
| Inscription | 2016 (40th Session) |
| Area | 2,179 ha |
| Buffer zone | 26,475 ha |
The Cité Frugès de Pessac is a housing development located in Pessac, a suburb of Bordeaux, France. It was designed by noted architect Le Corbusier as both an architect and a town planner.[1] It contained some 70 housing units.
The district is one of the 17 architectural works of Le Corbusier listed as UNESCO heritage since 2016.[2]
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, a Bordeaux industrialist and lover of modern architecture.[3] 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".[4]
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.[5]
Gallery[]
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
- ^ "L'Œuvre architecturale de le Corbusier, une contribution exceptionnelle au Mouvement Moderne".
- ^ "Le Corbusier's cité Frugès, timelessly modern and back in fashion | Bordeaux Tourism & Conventions".
- ^ Le Corbusier edited by Willy Boesiger, p.26.
- ^ personal visit to Pessac in 1970s
Coordinates: 44°47′56″N 0°38′52″W / 44.7990°N 0.6477°W
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