About Buildings + Cities
Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History and Culture
6 years ago

33 — Le Corbusier — 7 — Early Mass Housing

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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