Mar 2018

1 h

33 — Le Corbusier — 7 — Early Mass Housi...

Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History And Culture

About this episode

In this episode we explore in two early schemes for mass housing, at Pessac and in Stuttgart.

Among many other things, we talked about —

Bourneville
New Lanark
- Arnold circus
- Bruno taut’s horseshoe estate
- Pessac
- Henri Frugès
- The Weissenhofseidlung
- Margarete Schutte-Lihotsky
- Hannes Meyer’s essay ‘The New World’

Music & Interlude —

Harry Ross ‘Get Me an Apartment - Part 1’ from archive.org

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