The failing of the Unité d'habitation explained in 9 minutes

#architect #architecture #lecorbusier #brutalism #habitation
During the 1950s, as cities grew rapidly, there was an urgent need for cost-effective and effective housing solutions. Le Corbusier, a young architect at the time, proposed a radical idea for modern social housing - a self-sufficient housing unit that would offer residents all the conveniences of a small town within a single building. Thus, the Unité d'Habitation was born, a towering concrete structure that would go on to become one of the most influential buildings of the 20th century
#vintage #miesvanderroh #beautiful #architecturestudents #architecturehistory
0:00 Intro
0:41 His Social Housing blocks before 1945
1:33 The social condenser in Moscow
3:05 The unité d'habitation in Marseille
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[@archidots]

Plan Voisin : Le corbusier's plan to erase and rebuild paris kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5mTZIitmqabkMk

[@rogerevans9666]

A copy-cat version is Bunche Hall at UCLA. Rasing the building on pylons makes me feel like an ant crawling beneath a TV set. Having the building on pylons does free up the ground level, but I cannot resist feeling the enormous weight on top of me and again feeling like an ant crawling underneath a TV set.

[@antonylaing2499]

I've stayed in this building in an apartment with the original fittings, it was an unforgettable experience. The building is erie at night and very quiet. The level I was staying at, had concrete fixed 'shutters' that blocked the view out of the windows whilst creating a haven for pigeons and existing purely for aesthetic reasons to create a visual belt line. The roof top consists of a series of follies and serves no practical purpose complete with a fake pool just a couple of inches deep. Despite the many flaws, the building is well maintained and there is much enthusiasm and good will to keep it alive. From my short stay, there is part of me invested in it.

[@aggiesjc]

Thank you for your insight. These strange housing units designed by Le Corbusier fascinate me very much, but I live in California and have very little chance to ever see any of them in person. Every video about them that I have watched instills a morbid curiosity in me. They seem to be grim, awkward, confining places, and your description of the one in Marseilles as eerie confirms what I feel about them.

[@Kurazaybo]

This somehow reminds me of the Edith Farnsworth House in that it may have never been entirely practical but there is a lot of interest in preserving it.

[@evanfunk7335]

Great video. Le Corbusier is a mystery to me. How is he so popular and world renowned without being successful at anything?

[@felipeiglesias]

Is the classic well connected loser narcissist that everyone though was a genius, but the only good thing he created were prison like buildings, painfully uncomfortable and impractical

[@idlikemoreprivacy9716]

Because he was a nazi and Hitler was defeated but not those financing nazi ideas e.g. Ford and the car industry. Followers/su[porters of LeCorbusier are passionate about isolating and controlling ppl in places where you only can work, only can sleep, only can buy...

[@ssescobar1812]

He was a journalist. He’s actually really clever when it comes to criticizing other architects

[@Dadudi]

He introduced innovative architectural principles and a new design process

[@akritasdigenis4548]

His book "vers une architecture" is still quite interesting but more in his critisism than proposal.

[@edwardjones856]

I recently saw a KZbin video showing the people who live there today. The units are well decorated and people love them. There is a waiting list to get in. Not quite so bad

[@starmanjesus5679]

forget this loser this channel is made for frustrated people

[@1rjona]

I see elements here borrowed by the Singaporean Housing Development Board flat. They have the void deck which is the empty ground floor. Its also a social housing apartment building that was suppose to house also amenities used by the residents like shops , resturants and kindergardens

[@djm5k]

Maybe it’s about time to reimagine this building and convert it into something successful and sustainable. After all, Architects are problem solvers, which is what I was taught in architecture school.

[@joegotz1971]

Affordable housing has always and will always be terrible. Look at Pruitt Eigo in St Louis and Capridi Green in Chicago. And we still build them with the concept of shops on the ground floor. Half of the rentable spaces are vacant due to rental cost and most of the living units are used only part time. Putting a lot of people in one building for extended periods of time will never work.

[@tyeteames7192]

Well said and presented.

[@penguinpenguin007]

His buildings were bad, but the other buildings inspired by his work is truly a global catastrophe.

[@user-ds8no1ro2q]

My God! At last someone who is telling the truth about Le Corbusier! Yes, huge cost overruns, long delays in construction, poorly thought out designs that make easy maintainance and successful use of working and living space impossible, uncomfortable and difficult living spaces, dreary or scary corridors, misplacement of stairs and the universal use of ugly and deteriorating concrete all combine to show what a sham he was. And even today, snobs still say their emperor has the finest clothes that only truly refined people like themselves can see.

[@aggiesjc]

I agree! All those Unite buildings give me the creeps -- the windowless corridors and the apartments themselves are just depressing. Several of his other projects go beyond depressing to downright frightening, including the monastery, the convent of La Tourette, I believe it's called.

[@ufcomega4830]

Bro is a Le corbusier hater💀

[@Thanos_Kyriakopoulos]

Modernity is like a modern day taboo. Everyone hates it but noone is supposed to love it.

[@sofiamoro8252]

My dear frend you shoould study a little more. L'unitè d'habitation by Le Corbusier was not designed as a home for working class, but a 1:1 scale reproduction of a piece of the 1931 Obus plan for Algeiers

[@user-ds8no1ro2q]

My dear Sofia, The unite was BUILT as a residence for the working class and where is Algeiers? Did you do your homework?

[@sofiamoro8252]

@@user-ds8no1ro2q Yes sir I study, buy if you did't know did go and search this

[@marcusmoonstein242]

Aah, Corbo. The most successful and influential bad architect who ever lived.

[@avancalledrupert5130]

Demolish it all. Everything built from 1950 to 1990 just get rid . Drind it into balless and send it to be foundations for new houses built in a traditional style. Loke prince Charleses housing estates. I worked on some of them thats how you do affordable housing. You build a replica 1870s vilage woth wifi and double glazing.

[@joegotz1971]

Dab

[@mq461004]

failure ?

[@starmanjesus5679]

Failing projects that are widely recognized as Unesco places stop this nonsense please!

[@avancalledrupert5130]

Demolish it all. Everything built from 1950 to 1990 just get rid . Drind it into balless and send it to be foundations for new houses built in a traditional style. Loke prince Charleses housing estates. I worked on some of them thats how you do affordable housing. You build a replica 1870s vilage woth wifi and double glazing.

[@repeatedrepeated]

Wow , I never knew there are also a sect of Taliban architects !