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Refurbishing the 60’s masterpieces: two examples from Rome

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The city within a building – Mario Fiorentino In the last 50 years, we have built a massive amount of buildings, experimenting techniques and philosophies as never before. Reinforced concrete, cheap energy and cars allowed us a freedom to build that we never experienced before. Now, many of the ideas behind them look outdated, and the building themselves are approaching the [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 7/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

50 years after the first Unité, this model seems already belonging to another era. The strong separation between the building and its surroundings, the sensation of living in an all-artificial environment, and an almost complete identification of the Unité d’Habitation with social housing have made this model quite undesirable. The destiny of the millions of [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 6/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Promoted as a standard, easy-to-build product, The Unité d’Habitation concept spread all over the world after WWII. The first 5 units (Marseille, Firminy, Rezé, Briey and Berlin) built by Le Corbusier himself became the standard for almost all public housing project between 1950 and 1990. The more the model was spread along the world, the [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 5/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Promoted as a standard, easy-to-build product, The Unité d’Habitation concept spread all over the world after WWII. The first 5 units (Marseille, Firminy, Rezé, Briey and Berlin) built by Le Corbusier himself became the standard for almost all public housing project between 1950 and 1990. The more the model was spread along the world, the [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 4/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Promoted as a standard, easy-to-build product, The Unité d’Habitation concept spread all over the world after WWII. The first 5 units (Marseille, Firminy, Rezé, Briey and Berlin) built by Le Corbusier himself became the standard for almost all public housing project between 1950 and 1990. Rome, Corviale, 1972-1982 (image: flickr). Strict translation of the Unité [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 3/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In the beginning of the XX century, steamships were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Each one of them could carry 2000 passengers for a 15-days trip between Europe and America, and in these days it became for them a sort of new house. The image of all these people living, loving, fighting, making business, all in [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 2/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the beginning of the XX century, steamships were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Each one of them could carry 2000 passengers for a 15-days trip between Europe and America, and in these days it became for them a sort of new house. The image of all these people living, loving, fighting, making business, all in [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 1/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

SS Empress of britain, pre-1924 (image: wikimedia commons). In the beginning of the XX century, steamships were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Each one of them could carry 2000 passengers for a 15-days trip between Europe and America, and in these days it became for them a sort of new house. MS Kungsholm, entrance to 1st [...]

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Spatial organization and human nature

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 2.4 - cars, 3 - events, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If we think, like Le Corbusier, that human nature is bad, social interactions can only lead us away from the Truth, thus shall be discouraged. A “bad human nature city” will have freeways with no sidewalk, windows on nature, shopping centers with security guards preventing unwanted behaviours… If we think, like Jane Jacobs, that human [...]

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