Marseille 8th - Housing unit Le Corbusier, called Cité Radieuse
- department: Bouches-du-Rhône
- municipality: Marseille
- naming: Housing unit Le Corbusier, called Cité Radieuse
- address : 280 boulevard Michelet
- authors: Charles-Edouard JEANNERET dit LE CORBUSIER (architect), Charlotte PERRIAND (ensemble designer)
- date: 1945-1952
- protection: Classification of historical monuments of 20 June 1986 and 12 October 1995
- label patrimoine XXe: Circular of 1 March 2001
The Marseille Housing Unit, commissioned by Le Corbusier in December 1945 by Minister Raoul Dautry (Ministry of Reconstruction), was inaugurated in October 1952. The building asserts itself as a "social laboratory" combining "lodging" and "extensions" (equipment and shops); it houses 900 inhabitants in 337 apartments, "cells" designed as individual houses. The building has fifteen different cell types. Apartment number 50, on the south façade, is of type E1, or "mono-oriented lower cell". This apartment, owned by the former director of the Cité Radieuse kindergarten, is in perfect condition with its integrated furniture, designed by Charlotte Perriand. The apartments were sold jointly between 1952 and 1959.
- Editor: Paul Smith, dapa, 1997
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