Cité Frugès de Pessac - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Cité Frugès de Pessac - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Cité Frugès de Pessac (the Frugès Estate of Pessac), or Les Quartiers Modernes FrugèsArchitecture View - LE CORBUSIER'S HOUSING PROJECT- FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO ENDURE - by Ada Louise Huxtable - NYTimes.com (the modern Frugès quarters), is a housing development located in Pessac, a suburb of Bordeaux, France. It was commissioned by the industrialist Henri Frugès in 1924 as worker housing and designed by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who were responsible for the development's masterplan and individual buildings. It was intended as a testing ground for the ideas Le Corbusier had expressed in his 1922 manifesto Vers une Architecture and was his first attempt designing low-cost, mass-produced collective housing in his trademark aesthetic. Drawings of some of the buildings were subsequently included in the second edition of the text. Read more on Wikipedia
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