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UnitĂ© d'Habitation, apartment house, Marseille, France, designed by Le Corbusier, 1946–52. Le Corbusier: UnitĂ© d'Habitation
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UnitĂ© d'Habitation, apartment house, Marseille, France, designed by Le Corbusier, 1946–52.

UnitĂ© d’Habitation

urban complex, Marseille, France
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UnitĂ© d’Habitation, 18-story residential block in Marseille, France, that expressed Le Corbusier’s ideal of urban family lodging. Completed in 1952, it is a vertical mixed-use community, with a shopping floor halfway up and other communal facilities on the roof. Two-story living rooms make for efficient use of volumes and permit the use of a “skip-stop” system in which elevators stop on every other floor. Each unit has front and rear balconies with sun protection provided by Le Corbusier’s brise-soleil. The concrete screen pierced with differently sized openings evokes tracery.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.