Le corbusier education
What is le corbusier famous for
Pessac near bordeaux le corbusier biography architect.
Cité Frugès (Workers' Housing Estate)
Pessac, France,
« Although I say so myself, I'm amazed, amazed to witness an absolutely new, unprecedented architectural phenomenon.
Not a peculiar one but one that tells us things have changed, there is a new spirit, here is evidence of this new spirit. »
Commission
Cité Frugès was designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret at the request of the Bordeaux sugar industrialist Henry Frugès, who turned to Le Corbusier after having read Vers une Architecture.
How did le corbusier die
In an interview of 13 March, he says: “One day, an article came into my hands, an article by someone completely unknown: Le Corbusier. I was struck by the author&#;s common sense. It was highly revolutionary, but the ideas were full of common sense.”
This was the most ambitious project carried out for Henri Frugès, who wanted to bring together art and social progress in workers&#; housing.
Le Corbusier was already designing the Maison du T