Unité d´habitation building (1947- 1952).
Le Corbusier´s kitchen at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg |
With the Unité Le Corbusier introduced the world to raw concrete, which - regrettably - later led to the "beton brutalism" style, so prevalent all over the world. No doubt Le Corbusier - and Charlotte Perriand, who actually designed the kitchen - wanted to create better homes for ordinary people during the the housing crisis in France in the
1920´s and after the World War II. But, at least in hindsight, their idea about the home as a machine to live in is not very appealing.
Unité d´habitation in Marseilles (image by wiki) |
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