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The Forgotten French Architect Who Rebuilt Marseille

The Forgotten French Architect Who Rebuilt Marseille

Bloomberg08-02-2025
For lovers of modernist architecture, there's invariably one name that connects the style to the city of Marseille: Le Corbusier. The Swiss architect's 1947 Unité d'Habitation housing project has made the French city a pilgrimage site for modernism aficionados — reasonably enough, given its huge influence on similar projects globally.
The modernism of Marseille, France's second largest city and third largest metro area, doesn't begin and end with Corbusier, however. The city is also home to a radically different, contextually sensitive version of modernist architecture, one created by an overshadowed figure whose work is far removed from Corbusier's professed desire to ' kill the street.' That figure, little known outside France, is Fernand Pouillon — an architect, painter, communist, novelist and convicted fraudster.
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