About Buildings + Cities

33 — Le Corbusier — 7 — Early Mass Housing

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In this episode we explore in two early schemes for mass housing, at Pessac and in Stuttgart.

Among many other things, we talked about —

  • Bourneville
  • New Lanark
    • - Arnold circus
    - Bruno taut’s horseshoe estate
    - Pessac
    - Henri Frugès
    - The Weissenhofseidlung
    - Margarete Schutte-Lihotsky
    - Hannes Meyer’s essay ‘The New World’

    Music & Interlude —

    • Harry Ross ‘Get Me an Apartment - Part 1’ from archive.org

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