Purple Diary
[04/14/2016]
A visit to the “Quartiers Modernes Frugès” housing development designed by Le Corbusier in Pessac, Bordeaux
I have been to Pessac to see the future and contrary to popular belief and the conventional wisdom, it works. Pessac is the town near Bordeaux, in France, where Le Corbusier designed and built a community of 51 houses in the 1920’s under the sponsorship of the French industrialist, Henry Fruges, who meant them to […]
Text Ada Louise Huxtable and photo Giasco Bertoli
