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la Cellule Le Corbusier, l’unité d’habitation de Marseille / The Le Corbusier Cell, the Unité d’Habitation of Marseille (book) by Arthur Rüegg, Jean-Lucien Bonillo. 2015. Editions Imbernon. 103 pages, paperback, like new. Bilingual edition (French/English).
This book provides graphic information and unique analyses on the typical cell of one of Le Corbusier’s most important buildings: the Unité d’Habitation of Marseille. A graphic reconstruction that details spatial, technical, and aesthetic aspects (including the polychromy) is provided for two cells: the typical east-west dual-aspect apartment and the single-aspect south-facing apartment of Lilette Ripert, the first director of the nursery school and “messenger” of Le Corbusier’s work.
Four articles constitute a sort of “critical apparatus” which accompanies these drawings: they deal with the place of the building in Le Corbusier’s work, the individual/collective relationship in this concrete community utopia, the way in which the cell sums up Le Corbusier’s social thought and plastic research, the restoration of Lilette Ripert’s listed M. H. apartment and Le Corbusier’s relationship with the latter.
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