Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Cutaway models of Unité d'Habitation, Marseilles

Preferred Title: 
Cutaway models of Unité d'Habitation, Marseilles
Alternate Title: 
Cutaway models of Cité radieuse, Marseille
Image View: 
Cutaway model showing arrangement of living spaces (each two story)
Creator: 
after Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)
Location: 
repository: Palais de Chaillot (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Location Note: 
Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (Musée national des Monuments Français), 1, Place du Trocadéro
GPS: 
+48.862760+2.288279
Date: 
model ca. 2007 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Modernist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
model (representation)
Classification: 
architectural and scale models
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Relation Work: 
depicts Unité d'Habitation
Description: 
Scale section models of the first Unité d'Habitation of Le Corbusier, was built in Marseille in 1947-1952, cut away to illustrate construction and space planning. The gallery of modern and contemporary architecture models in the museum opened in 2007. (Source: Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine; http://www.citechaillot.fr/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Eight
Identifier: 
1A1-LC-UHM-BB07
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.