In 1920, one of the world’s best known architects, Le Corbusier was funded by a French altruist to create a social housing complex for industrial workers in Pessac, France.
It was frankly experimental, exploring and encountering such issues as location, integration with the environment, generational reuse/modification and more. Many of the ideas and experiences resonate with our continued need to develop and build social housing
Read and view more of its time-proven results in ArchDaily: Le Corbusier’s Cité Frugès: Lessons from a Modern Social Housing Neighborhood
