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BEDROOM UNIT IN MARSEILLE
Le Corbusier
Boulevard Michelet. Marseilles, France. 1952
The Marseilles Housing Unit is one of the iconic projects Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier and a benchmark for modern architecture. He began working in the early 1920 on collective housing based on analysis of urban phenomena and circulation distribution. Since the economic crisis of 1929 the architect focuses its theoretical reflection to the organization of urban concentration Le Corbusier finds inspiration for her housing unit in the early Soviet communal buildings like Narkomfin building in Moscow (1928-1932), he met during his visits to the Soviet Union.
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