Editing Modern architecture (section)

==Le Corbusier and the ''Cité Radieuse'' (1947–1952)==
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File:Unite d'Habitation salon.jpg|Salon and Terrace of an original unit of the [[Unité d'Habitation]], now at the [[Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine]] in Paris (1952)
File:RonchampCorbu.jpg|The [[Notre Dame du Haut|Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut]] in Ronchamp (1950–1955)
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Shortly after the War, the French architect [[Le Corbusier]], who was nearly sixty years old and had not constructed a building in ten years, was commissioned by the French government to construct a new apartment block in [[Marseille]]. He called it [[Unité d'Habitation]] in Marseille, but it more popularly took the name of the [[Cité Radieuse]] (and later "Cité du Fada" "City of the crazy one" in Marseille French), after his book about futuristic urban planning. Following his doctrines of design, the building had a concrete frame raised up above the street on pylons. It contained 337 duplex apartment units, fit into the framework like pieces of a puzzle. Each unit had two levels and a small terrace. Interior "streets" had shops, a nursery school, and other serves, and the flat terrace roof had a running track, ventilation ducts, and a small theater. Le Corbusier designed furniture, carpets, and lamps to go with the building, all purely functional; the only decoration was a choice of interior colors that Le Corbusier gave to residents. Unité d'Habitation became a prototype for similar buildings in other cities, both in France and Germany. Combined with his equally radical organic design for the [[Notre Dame du Haut|Chapel of Notre-Dame du-Haut]] at [[Ronchamp]], this work propelled Corbusier in the first rank of postwar modern architects.{{Sfn|Journel|2015|pages=152–163}}