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Unité d’Habitation Marseille - Le Corbusier’s Vision for a New Way of Living

25 Nov 2025

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Explore the story behind the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le Corbusier’s groundbreaking experiment in collective living. This episode looks at post war France, the housing crisis that shaped the commission, and the ideas that drove Le Corbusier to rethink how communities could live together. From the Modulor and the design of the duplex apartments to the challenges of construction, the first residents, and the building’s lasting influence, discover how this concrete giant became a milestone in modern architecture and a model for high density housing around the world.

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